When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.