"I'm a secular saint with a sacred struggle."

"We live in a moment in which there is a courage deficit. People want to be popular and comfortable. They don't have the courage to tell the truth."

"We must never allow despair to become our default."

"We need to recover the best of the American democratic tradition, which is a tradition of dissent, of protest, of resistance."

"We are living in a moment of existential crisis."