Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

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

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

If you have a hobby, you be happy.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.