These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the ….

Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once e….

Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent and taking….

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion..

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted….

Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social ….

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions..

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….

The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to ….

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….

The violence of our time is caused by obedience..

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant..

When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class war….

Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing la….

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than t….

The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginni….

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allo….

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color..

I believe that it is preferable sometimes to have one candidate rather another candidate, while you understand that that is not the solution. Sometim….

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons agai….

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory..