Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.