“No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.”

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.

Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

Many of our partners are here and this is where the world’s expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers.

Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view… agenda.

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people’s agendas.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

I’m not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It’s a positive agenda.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.