I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

The only compensation for land is land.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don't know when we will see it again. We don't know how long it will take for the waters to subside.

Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.