Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

- Myles Horton

When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and…

- Myles Horton

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

- Myles Horton

I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, you’re going to strengthen that position. If you …

- Myles Horton

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

- Myles Horton

I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I…

- Myles Horton

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

- Myles Horton

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people…

- Myles Horton

Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already togethe…

- Myles Horton