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

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.

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

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

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.

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

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