We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.