Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.