I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.