My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change.

What happens to one directly happens to all indirectly.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.

The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago.

In this world we must help one another.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

I have felt uncomfortable having people say, "You're my idol," because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot.

Money is only congealed snow.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.