If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.