“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

What we live by we die by.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I always entertain great hopes.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.

It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.