If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.