There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

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

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

The only compensation for land is land.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late ’90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.