"I began to realise that we are..." - Quote by John Lennon

“The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.”

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.”

“Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.”

“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.”

“It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.”

“The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.”

“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

“From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.”

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”