Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

"But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right."

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

"Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed."

"To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives."

"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend."

"No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

"The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better."

"When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired."

"This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: `Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace.'"

"There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle."

"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick."

"In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union."

"It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail."

"Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat."

"My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights."

"We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."

“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.”

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.”

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home”

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”

“Democracy is the most vile form of government.”