George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

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.

According to the Word of the Lord, we are called but we have the choice of determining our destiny

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.