I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Everything comes down to Dollars

Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love My father is love My prophet is love My God is love I am a child of love I have come only to speak of love.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

Who can be patient in extremes?