When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?