I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

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

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat