Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can’t give back to them. We can, however, give...

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don’t like in the world, we must start by changing what we don’t like about ourselves.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare...

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of...

We’d do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn’t defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and...

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.” ~ ‘ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it...

London is one of the world’s centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications....

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

Awareness without action is worthless.

If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom ofparadox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all ofthe mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong...

I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate’s determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress’ constitutional role,

War…is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative...

Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies that care for their citizens, harmonize with the cycles of nature, and receive...

Everyone is so locked into the current way of doing things, they never see the larger picture or other, more responsible and efficient possibilities. A REAL economy is always wanting to limit consumption/manufacturing as much...

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

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.

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....