Civil disobedience is an act of love.

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

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

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