Love is the strongest medicine.
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. . . We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. . . We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.
The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.