"We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember."
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"The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable."
"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
"The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all."
"It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one."