Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.