I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

When you wish evil on your enemies, remember that you are also someone else's enemy. Matthew 5:44

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.