Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain wa….

What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous ….

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the wo….

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any….

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

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms o….

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or ….

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does ….

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of….

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is….

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they ….

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end..

I would prefer to use a very inclusive definition of the working class. I'd like to include all of those people who are, if they're not exploited by ….

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….