If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?