In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

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?'

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.