I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
From Alice Walker
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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