Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.