Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.

When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, "How come you're just a waitress?" I say, "Don't you think you deserve being served by me?"

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.