If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.