You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

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.

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.

Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.