we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Turn your pain into purpose.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.