I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.