What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, "I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother."

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.