We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Never let a crisis go to waste

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution