There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.