Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.