“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”