"Harvard’s excuses for not divesting from fossil fuel corporations are the same dodges they used during the struggle to end apartheid when I was an undergraduate. Electing the Harvard Forward Five will help Harvard become the leader it professes to be."

"Please vote for the Harvard Forward Five. The only principle the Harvard Corporation is defending when it refuses to divest is "Nobody tells us what to do."

"Let us seize upon the sense of our commonality and our connection to Nature created by the coronavirus to do all that we can to address the danger of Climate Change and support Harvard's divestment from fossil fuels."

"Divestment is key to lowering the share prices of fossil fuel companies. Please join me in voting for Harvard Forward candidates."

"In an emergency, leadership makes all the difference. Harvard's leadership in fighting the climate emergency will influence other institutions and the entire world."

“Harvard likes to think it never divests for political reasons; but it divested from companies supporting apartheid in the '80s, and from tobacco companies in the '90s, and Harvard will also divest from fossil fuels. Voting for the Harvard Forward Five sends a clear message of alumni support."

"Everybody vote! Vote to support divestment and ecologically conscious business arrangements."

“Please join me in supporting the Harvard Forward Five. Championing fossil fuels is the opposite of the circular economy we desperately need to embody.”

"Why do great institutions, like great democracies, so rarely get the leaders they deserve? Here at last is our chance to put wisdom, imagination, and daring at the helm of our beloved university."

"Investment in climate solutions is critical to a socially just and sustainable future. Without divestment, Harvard ignores the plight of low income communities and the health of our planet."

"I believe Harvard needs to act decisively to address the ongoing climate crisis, and as a GSAS alumnus I support the right of graduate students to organize and advocate for themselves."

"I learned this in every Harvard class: Innovation comes from the periphery. Now it’s the University’s turn to learn. The entire Harvard Forward Five platform is key to Harvard’s future—and its relevance."

"Harvard needs to respond to the imperatives of climate change and listen to so many young people fighting for their future, for the planet’s future. Electing these five will be a start."

"While Harvard prides itself on cultivating leadership, no institution is immune from the need for a grassroots effort to move it where it needs to go. Harvard Forward is providing exactly that."

"Harvard's aim to be the world's pre-eminent university on climate science and policy absent the ethical dimension of fossil-fuel divestment is both a moral lapse and a practical impediment to success."

"I will be so proud when Harvard shows some leadership and compassion for the world's fast-disappearing biodiversity and gets rid of its fossil-fuel stocks."

"Harvard claims more salutary influence on fossil fuel companies working from ‘inside the tent’: with little evidence that is helping, it’s time to try joining the legions who seek a succession plan for this industry."

"I suspect the Board fears applying a moral test to one investment could lead to questioning others (e.g. arms, tobacco, big pharma). Why not?"