“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

"Libraries are one of the last noncommercial spaces we have where everyone is welcome. They strike me as a little glimpse of how we could live if we chose to be a generous society rather than a fearful one."

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people like things."

"Courage does not always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

"Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obcsure crimes of por men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order."

"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."

"We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save."

"The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."