I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.