I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.