Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.