I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” 'Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

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?