If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.