The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent