We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism ….

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea..

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spont….

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements..

There's a different use for different strategies..

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable..

Leadership is another word for preparation..

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies..

Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them….

Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting..

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery..

You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so….

The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization..

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the c….

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with th….

We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we don't actually see ….

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back..

There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and the….

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoologic….

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation..

The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in east….