“Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.”

The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Peace is not a spectator sport.

Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

Until I am carried out, I will carry on.

Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.

Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.

First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.

Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.

Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.

A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.

Failure doesn’t exist until you quit, so don’t quit and keep striving for the best.

Win at what you can control.

Victory without any struggle is just a victory. But a victory that overcomes a lot of trouble, becomes history.

Say what you doin and not what you finna do.

The best thing you can do to prepare is become flexible in all your practices.⁠

Don’t let anyone doubt or say that you can’t do something you know you’re good at. They may think they know best, but let that negative energy be your push to greater success.

Celebrate your strength. You’ve come so far in your practice and have survived 100% of your bad days⁠.

Focus on the first step, not the whole staircase.