What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?