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.

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.

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.

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.

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that female jobs such as feeding husband and children be considered as valuable as male jobs.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.