You can't be neutral on a moving train..

One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against ….

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position o….

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, who….

If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggr….

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example n….

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its s….

War itself is the enemy of the human race..

Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along wi….

The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiit….

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppre….

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, ….

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States..

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these mean….

There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at c….

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition..

I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metapho….

The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new n….

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as t….

Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, y….

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way….