Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Read Summary
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. Read Summary
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. Read Summary
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. Read Summary
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. Read Summary
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. Read Summary
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Read Summary
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Read Summary
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. Read Summary
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. Read Summary
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Read Summary
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Read Summary
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. Read Summary
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Read Summary
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Read Summary
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. Read Summary
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Read Summary
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Read Summary
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. Read Summary
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Read Summary