This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we’re looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?

I’m as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

You can padlock a building, but you can’t padlock an idea.

Nothing will change until we change – until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

You can’t be a revolutionary, you can’t want to change society if you don’t love people, there’s no point in it.

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you’ll never try to do anything worth doing.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn’t be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.