Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.

The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.

If you dance daily, you shall expel any seed of distress in thy soul.

Stop following the con artists, instead become the greatest and brightest artist ever to exist and let others follow your light instead

A prosperous person programmes prosperous thinking into his or her mind.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

I know politics; I know the media.