"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ... The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom."
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
“Our choice always is the same: save the world or savor it. And I vote for savoring it. And, just because everything is about something else, if you savor the world, somehow -- go figure -- it’s getting saved.”
"In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot."
"You can pray until you faint, but if you don't get up and try to do something, God is not gon’ put it in your lap."
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
“If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”
"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something; and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything."