"The greatest mistake of the Movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first then you’ll get action."

From the Voice archives: Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”

“There I was, with them as they were hustled from one custom’s checkpoint to another last Saturday afternoon.”

“We believe in selling peace … nobody says to give up Christianity because Christ died.”

"Political parties, unions, churches, and personalities, will mean less and less in the future. Guerrilla politics with its emphasis on movement and its commitment to issues, is the best antidote to the banality of Nixon”

On Nixon and the Republican record, Kennedy said: “I don't think a man who has had 40 accidents should be given a new driver's license.”

“I must confess that it did my heart a world of good to sit back and listen to Mr. X. list the sins of the white man toward the black man in America. He does it well”

“The Russians had done more than in­vade Czechoslovakia — they had sent their damn tanks crashing into our skulls, they had invaded the hopes of socialists all over the world.”

“In our glib age the stutterer has been considered a kind of contemporary hero, a supposed Honest Man who is unable to gab with the media people.”

“The new consciousness born in these States can be traced back through old gnostic texts, visions, artists & shamans; it is the consciousness of our ground nature suppressed & desecrated.”