As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

History is a relay of revolutions.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

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

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.