We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.