Defenders quotes

  • Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

  • Inequality is the root of social evil.

  • Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.

  • The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

  • If you really were aware of the Earth in a singular context, putting it into the perspective of the galaxy, for example, then you would see that it is not infallible, that it is just part of a much bigger system that is part of a much bigger system and onward.

  • To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes

  • Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping Trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.

  • The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

  • It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

  • When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.