Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin’, because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?
Optimism is evidence-based.
Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions.
It’s fashionable to be indifferent to other people’s suffering.
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites...
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can’t talk about a socialist revolution.
Context shapes who you are.
We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.
We are a democracy and we don’t believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That’s what democracies do.
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That’s true not just black people to black people; that’s human being to human being.
Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don’t miss him!
Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.