We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.
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. '
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
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.
If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.
I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life