Who said “Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect…”?

“We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”

“If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.”

“Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.”