You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights. . . the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated. . . Where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them