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.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.