Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.