A society with more justice needs less charity.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
We must strive to become good ancestors.
The corporations have become our government. They’re not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there’s no more opening to be heard.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The clinical definition of “fascism” is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Arbitration is private. It doesn’t have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It’s usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.
I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon – she is in the same position.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.
If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.