The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.