The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."