I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.