Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live..

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.

I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist dem….

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't..

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to e….

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the p….

The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions unde….

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and o….

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night..

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to..

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept..

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia..

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do..

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism..

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communiti….

Walls turned sideways are bridges..

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembere….

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb..

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'.

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no….

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one c….