Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.