Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?.

When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startle….

The violence of our time is caused by obedience..

Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dea….

Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, wh….

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism..

No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for re….

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves a….

I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were….

I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic and social system in order to….

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it..