I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.