Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will be able to ensure that no group of ideologues and no private sector institution can coopt our rights, take us into senseless wars and steal the nation from its people.

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 think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

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