I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

The more I see, the less I know.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.