I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's he…

I think one of the great, great problems... is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for thems…

Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not 'melt the hearts' of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to …

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and …