Protest, Resistance and Revolution

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute .

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion.