It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
People cannot hurt you without your permission.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.