When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.

Holy freak show!

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

No matter how perfect is physical beauty of a girl, if she could trample and not to appreciate the love, she doesn't worth of being loved.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.