I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

Gregory: Go to hell.Dane: I'd be glad to leave you in it.

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.