Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)

My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.