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.

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.

He downed the last of his coffee, carried his mug over to the pot, poured himself a refill, and returned to the

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.