"The function of freedom is to free someone else." — Toni Morrison

“It always seems impossible until it's done.” — Nelson Mandela

“Come to the edge, he said, we can't, we're afraid! Come to the edge, we can't, we will fall. And so they came, he pushed them, and they flew.” —  Guillaume Apollinaire

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” — Susan Sontag

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” — Alice Walker

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr

“It's important to be honest with people about why you're photographing them. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” — Mary Ellen Mark

“Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.” — Lewis Hine

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” —James Baldwin

"When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level, when they go low, you go high." — Michelle Obama

“A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it?” — Susan Sontag

“I’m not an artist. An artist makes an object. I work in history, I’m a storyteller.” — Sebastiao Salgado

“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” — Anais Nin

“One of the deep secrets of life is all that is worth the doing is what we do for others.” — Lewis Carroll

“Only one thing makes a dream impossible: The fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” — Edmund Burke

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost” — Thomas Jefferson

“I don’t want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion.” — Sebastiao Salgado

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” — Albert Einstein

“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” - Toni Morrison

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin

”Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." — Frederick Douglass​

“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg​

“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg​