Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.