My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

The soul has words as petals.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.