“It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.”

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.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.

Government is essentially immoral.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

Catching the apple doesn’t overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It’s merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur.