We must always attempt to lift as we climb

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.

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.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

I have proposed maternity leave for mothers whose employers do not provide it.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.