I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.
From Michael Franti
I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.
I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.
The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
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