[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.
Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.
W. Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities. '
I was a child of the women's movement. Everything I had learned was from my mother and my grandmother, who both had a very pioneering spirit. They had to, because they had to change flat tires and paint the house - because, you know, the men didn't come home from the war or whatever else, so women had to do these things.
That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.