We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Good things come in small packages.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.