A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.