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...

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

We declare our right on this earth…to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this...

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and...

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for...

Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand...

Lincoln on Grant: “He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Feeling anger is necessary; it’s what we do with anger that will make or break us.

The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be...

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can’t be apolitical. It will come and get you. It’s not that you shouldn’t be neutral. It’s that...

It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they’re fucking...

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.

I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions. Don’t like the war? Let’s blame the president, congress, or lobbyists. Don’t like...

We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer.Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

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

Why do you live out here? You’re a great healer; you could get work in the inner city if you wanted to. Even in E-star, I bet.” “Well, I just don’t want to live anywhere...

As long as you’re scared you’re on the plantation.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program,...

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that’s not so unusual. Let’s look at our own history....

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

Everything’s urgent to a Democrat.

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the...

My hope is that we can navigate through this world and our lives with the grace and integrity of those who need our protection. May we have the sense of humor and liveliness of the...

The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you...

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering...

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the...

The wrong information will only lead to deformation

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government...

There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with...

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.

We urgently need to do – and I mean actually do – something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don’t think we will.I think we’re fucked.

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.