Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.

A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.