But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the p….

The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful….

It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not ….

Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networ….

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves pro….

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of co….

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a d….

David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argu….

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience..

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power..

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience..

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselv….

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then….

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If ….

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning..

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- th….

Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of i….

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act..

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries ….

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….