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

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.

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

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism....

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.