Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its...

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Up is down.Near is far.Coal is clean.And, so it tar?!?!

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and...

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most cases, we will never get to see whatdifference we made, but living out...

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we...

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found...

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and...

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in...

Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.

We’ve got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you’re it

message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology—holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity...

Thou shalt not stand idly by

Stop Duane Thomas!

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual...

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

Do what you can, when you can.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

The greatest work you will ever do is charity; the most divine work you will ever do will be changing people’s perception of God, while you’re doing charity.

Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world...

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.

The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you...

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

I don’t think that God says, “Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine.” No. For me God says, “Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and...

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality...

From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers.

This isn’t about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to my soul (his words, not mine), I silently panicked and wrote lines of...