"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. "
— Paulo Freire

"Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves."
— Herbert Marcuse

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
— Vladimir Lenin

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
— Frederick Douglass

"In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue."
— Edmund White

"Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than
the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
— Eugene V. Debs