Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.