Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.

Don't ever let another man call your child daddy.

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Who could forget Malcolm Devon?