Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive of the ends for which government has been established. This principle, in the Declaration of Independence, suggests that true patriotism lies in supporting the values the country is supposed to cherish: equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. When our government compromises, undermines, or attacks those values, it is being unpatriotic.