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

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.

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

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

The Americans are impatient by nature.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.