People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

I think you have to take me for me. I am who I am.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

Do not overeat; that invites disease.