Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

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.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

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

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

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

Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story no one else does. Believe in your unique steps up the mountain.

Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?