You can cage the singer but not the song.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I think the real creative energy and the real juice is in where people are caught, in the economic abyss.

I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in