Betty Reid Soskin, U.S. National Park Service Ranger
“It’s through the humanities that one learns empathy … access that great attribute which is empathy.”
Tracy Fullerton, Game Designer
“It has become increasingly important for us to question how and why we do things.”
Richard Louv, Author & Journalist
“If truth has a future in America, we must support the humanities…”
Juan Felipe Herrera, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
“The humanities are peacemakers…one of the most powerful ways to generate peace is by listening …”
Father Gregory Boyle, Author & Activist
“Give your hearts to dismantling the barriers.”
L. Frank Manriquez, Artist, Activist
“Humanities has connected cultures in a way that we can share information that has been lost.”
David Mas Masumoto, Farmer & Author
“Stories help enable us to work and help create our identity.”
Eugene & Emiliano Rodriguez, Los Cenzontles
“Los Cenzontles Academy is a place where the humanities is alive and three-dimensional.”
Craig Watson, Former Dir. CA Arts Council
“The best of what the people in the humanities do is they help translate the things we don’t see easily…”
Janice Mirikitani, Poet & Activist
“Humanities is creating light, it’s walking with each other through darkness.”