If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.
I approach every problem with optimism.
No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.
A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.
When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.