We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.

If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.

While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.