"Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice."

"I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that."

"How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant."

"Fear too often spells failure."

"When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us."

"There is no excuse for not trying."