Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.

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

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.