I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.

We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very abhorrent to me: Marxism, Leninism, almost the KGB mentality - a police politics that I found completely totalitarian in nature.

My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights - this is the true left in the United States.