"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."

"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."

"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."

"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others."

"As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change."

"Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves."

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."