I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Something contracts in my chest. The air shifts, grows heavy and dense as mud. Alexa twists her hair around her finger and whispers, "Didn't you even try to escape, Charlotte?

When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Expose yourself as you are without trying to be someone else.