Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to de….

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens..

If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. ….

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If nati….

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not ….

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time..

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn..

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation….

Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchi….

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater t….

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinki….

If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosi….

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burnin….

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is ….

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too ofte….

The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on livi….

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we a….

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 film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students "This is not going to be a neutra….

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times..

In war, good guys always become bad guys..