If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

Don't ever get wrapped up with what other people think you should look like.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.