Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.