For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

The status quo sucks.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.