“When only cops have guns, it's called a police state.”

“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”

“Don't tell me the skys the limit when there are footprints on the moon”

“It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.”

“We talk of strong personalities, and they are strong, until the not-every-day when we see them as we might see one woman alone in a desert, and know that all the strength we thought we knew was only courage, only her lone song echoing among the stones; and then at last when we have understood this and made up our minds to hear the song and admire its courage and its sweetness, we wait for the next note and it does not come. The last word, with its pure tone, echoes and fades and is gone, and we realize—only then—that we do not know what it was, that we have been too intent on the melody to hear even one word. We go then to find the singer, thinking she will be standing where we last saw her. There are only bones and sand and a few faded rags.”

“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”