When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.