You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.