Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

History is a relay of revolutions.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

Last guys don't finish nice.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.