I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the worst jobs and the lowest paid jobs. Once you have a system like that, then the most likely people to be victims of that are people of color.

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.

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

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

War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.