I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.