In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.