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In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.