I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

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.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.