Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

We can remake the world daily.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.