True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

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.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

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.

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

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.