Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

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.

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

My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

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