Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, mayb….

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around ….

To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If w….

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can tran….

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win..

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience..

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth..

When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell yo….

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of lead….

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane..

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world..

I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, h….

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future..

There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists t….

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a politi….

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold..

Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants….

We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high….

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The….

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation..

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won..