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 inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.