Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

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.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.