To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.