Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

Challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood.

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.