When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he had a mandate. He snuck into the presidency with the aid of political cronies, his father's having appointed members of the Supreme Court, his brother governor of Florida. And then he takes total control. And this is a president who seems to react to everything with force. Now we've had two wars. We've killed a lot of people. For anybody who is interested in not being a warlike nation anymore, and becoming a nation respected in the world, it becomes important to defeat Bush.

Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.