“This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life.” — John Perkins …

“If each person were to sweep before his own house, the city would soon be clean.” — Polish Proverb …

“Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.” — Roger Nash Baldwin …

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” — Michael Pollan …

“For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are.” — Carl Sagan …

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.” — Jim Morrison …

“No part of the human community can live entirely on its planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.” — Hugo Chavez …

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.” — Howard Zinn …

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” — Albert Einstein …

“The truth is that what’s happening on our southern border isn’t a battle in the war on drugs; nor is it a war between drug cartels. It’s nothing less than the collapse of civil society, a Hobbesian state of nature, a war of every man against every other man.” — Philip Caputo …