Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.