People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

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.

A person who thinks about "why" is a philosopher.

Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.

Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.