"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

“I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights."

“Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.”

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

"Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is essential to it."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell."

"Never take a path that has no heart in it."

"Here at home and throughout the world people are fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism - some because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice."