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If you live long enough, every defeat will turn into a victory.

You can never be truly free if you do not join efforts to free someone else. The function of freedom is always to free someone else.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever, but to be part of an ongoing historical movement.

The true test of a human being's character is how he treats people in his life that he cannot use.

Never prostitute your integrity to get a job or to keep one.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.

You are now fully prepared to begin living out your hopes and aspirations. And with all the immense challenges we face, the necessity for you to do so right away is more important than ever.

Always protect your reputation — and have the courage to follow your dreams.

Help the world find its way ahead.

We show off and have a vision of success as a ladder to climb. But there is no ladder, and it has no top, and eventually we have to decide what we want to do, what we want to be, what we want to stand for.

Even if greed were good, greed is not enough.

Don't just think about what already exists. Think about what doesn't exist and do that.