The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that the American political system works beautifully; it is democratic; Congress represents us; the President is elected, he represents us - it doesn't work that way.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.