It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Respond to stressful times by turning towards each other, rather than away from each other.

Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.

If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change.

We need actions that are really coming from people's souls.

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

Our security doesn't come from turning away from the hard stuff; it comes from the knowledge that we can handle it.