The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis... Of course the deaths of Iraqis are not played up as much. But when they count the corpses they see women and children. We are constantly killing the people who are suspected of something. Now, in the United States or under any decent system of justice, you don't kill people on suspicion. That's what you do when you bomb a house because there are suspected leaders there. But we've been doing that again and again and the result has been a toll of thousands of civilians.

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

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.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

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

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.