The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

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.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

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.

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