Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

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

It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

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

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.