I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.
The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children.
Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.
Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.
Every hundred feet the world changes
There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.
I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.
The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles. " That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again.