Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to …

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they…

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and h…

[at Rock the Bells, San Francisco, California, 2007] 'Every once in a while, people forget who really has power in this country. People forget who really holds…