If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

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

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

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.

Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

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