Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

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

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.