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.

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

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

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

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.