Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.