You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch. You have no excuse if you are a conservative not to be concerned about the environment. You are equally responsible.

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.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.