Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Read enough books to build your sacred soul.

You are what you believe.

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

I read three books a week.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become.