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.

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 would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

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

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

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.

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