You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people. - Cornel West

"If we can't overcome the kind of despair that you're talking about, but remember now what Goethe said, that 'he or she who has never despaired has never lived', nothing wrong with wrestling with despair. The question is not allowing it to have the last word."
Anderson Cooper, "What gives you hope?",
"We do have a cloud of witnesses of all colors, all social orientations, all national identities against forms of evil. Hope is a verb as much as a virtue. We have to stay in motion and always know that we've got some memories of love and justice. We've got some joy tied to our witness that the world can never take away and if we have a collective effort than we can hold up this blood-stained banner just a little longer."

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. — Aristotle

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)