Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.