To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.

My wife went off with Elvis.

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.