Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason...

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have....

Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these...

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won’t speak for myself anymore.

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world...

so why don’t you folks start and we’ll dance till dawn and tomorrow scatter on the winds and down the sides of this great mountain, to carry the gift everywhere.

I’ve always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

…one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

There’s a reason why I’ve spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

We’ve got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.