I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

Be silent & you are considered on idiot. Be voluble & you are considered a nuisance. The perfect balance between speaking and remaining silent makes you a gentleman!

Treat people like they are who they should be and you will help them to become all that they can be.

When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new, ” associations will leap to greatness.

Your past is my Future.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.