The law doesn't create a right.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.