I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

Everybody changes, not just me.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.