The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.

No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.