“People shouldn’t feel crazy for thinking that we as a society could do better. If everybody with goodness in their heart got up and did something to change the world, it would be a much better place. We just need to remember that we can do it, no matter how hard it may seem.”— Cameron Kasky, twitter.com
“The truth is, our world is divided between those who are looking to the future and those who want to hold us back and suppress those who are different, or think for themselves. We need to unify as a community so we are strong and ready for the revolution.”— Jinkx Monsoon, twitter.com
“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It’s hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn’t want them to grow up in this screwed-up world. Who can blame Him?”— Margaret Atwood, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com
“You know, my whole life and career has been championing the rights of women, gay folk and disenfranchised folk. This administration is a fucking nightmare for us.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“That’s the story of my life, honey. They want to suck the comedy out of me and then they want to detach.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“How we treat the earth says much about us as a society, about our spirit and strengthen as a nation.”— Robert Redford, amazon.com
“People don't realize how little it takes to change our world for the better.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Whose severity excludes every improvement and reintegration of the condemned into society, can never be humanly just.”— Helmut Richter, amazon.com
“But you can change the way you think about other people. You can choose to see their humanity first -- the one big thing that makes them the same as you, instead of the many things that make them different from you.”— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu
“Mental health is a taboo subject. No one wants to talk about something that they can’t see, thus can’t understand. People have this misconception about suicide because society has portrayed to them this corrupt concept thus they believe it. If we change the conversation we can change the way people…”— Amy Bleuel, medium.com
“It’s less about a specific a policy or program that the development community is creating, it’s more about what women are creating for themselves.”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“‘Normal’ is a setting on a washing machine, not a benchmark in society. Be yourself and ignore the noise.”— Norm Kelly, twitter.com
“The destruction of the earth is due in part. . .to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters. . .so the task of naming & describing is an essential one.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“Society, right from the very beginning started to make me an animal. That’s why I started killing.”— Albert De Salvo, amazon.com
“The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitabilities.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com