The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.

The memories of sensei I carry with me are more cruel than sensei himself.

She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.