We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.