If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.