“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”
“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.”
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
“Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite—the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”
“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”
