Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: “If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I’m a saint.”

Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he’s made mistakes.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say ‘we want to add our voice.’

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman’s right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

Nelson Mandela once said “I can’t help it if the ladies take note of me; I’m not going to protest.”

I’ve come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that’s a rare thing.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, ‘enough is enough and no more.’

You know how they say, ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?’ What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.