No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.