I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and...

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

Modern industrial civilisation has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilisation has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that...

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of...

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn’t exist.

Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don’t after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal?...

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can’t eat money.

We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn’t have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the...

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth....

Why build entirely new systems for connecting to Christ consciousness when the institutions—whether Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist—have already been created?

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises ‘Why then are you not taking part in them?

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death,...

You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who...

Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are...

this, then, is what needs to be done.” It should be an instrument for those for who fight, those who resist and refuse what is. Its use should be in processes of conflict and confrontation,...

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual...

We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute...

Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I’m vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.

A little difference is still different.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

The most effective form of activism is kindness.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full...

Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species’ best defense systems?

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance...

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective...

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.