In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more. '
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.
A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice. '
The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.
Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security
Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.
The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.
Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.