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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

I always came away thinking "I'd like to see her more," you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought - Bette [Midler]. So we called her.

People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.