Go to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the...
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel The fundamental conflicts in human life...
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx Beware when you fight a dragon, lest you become a dragon. -- Friedrich...
I belong to a generation of working mothers who traded depression for stress. -- Ellen Goodman Any President who maintains that he is above the law - and ...
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. -- Franz Kafka We have gone from being lied to about the war to being spied on for protesting the war. --...
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin The blessing of a bigoted, political God isn't worth having. -- Deepak Chopra...
The pharmacists who want "freedom of conscience" to refuse to fill legal prescriptions for women seeking contraceptive devices are no different from the diner...
Women, like men, have a duty to their minds and talents and selves that cannot be fulfilled by living vicariously through husbands and children. An equal...
I decided to talk to a couple of gay people myself to see if they'd reveal to me the Gay Agenda. I confess I did not speak directly to the Head Homosexual, but...
Poverty is the worst form of violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi In the developed world . . . we speak of nature as if we are not part of it. -- James Carroll There is...
Moms and dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: don't let your kids go hunting with the vice president. I don't care what kind of...
Support our troops in the only way that word support can have real meaning -- by saving their lives, their limbs, their sanity. By bringing them home. --...
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus We liberals need to make a distinction between...
Life is a long lesson in humility. -- James M. Barrie Whatever a movement to abolish torture will achieve for society, it is clear what participating in it...
Watching a true American hero hang a For Sale sign on his principles is a profoundly sad thing. -- Arianna Huffington, on John McCain selling his soul to...
The immigration issue is mainly hurting the Republican Party, which is divided between those who want to expel immigrants and those who want to exploit them. ...
God help us all if he bombs Iran. -- Cenk Uygur War is a coward's escape from the problems of peace. -- Rev. William Sloane Coffin Why are millionaires getting...
Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing...
Everyone does better when everyone does better. -- Jim Hightower There are two types of power. Organized money and organized people. -- Linda Jeffers If we...
There is nothing more vital to the common good of our nation than the well-being of our working mothers and their families. -- Ruth Rosen Let us dedicate...
Artists are often the canary in the coal mine. -- Robert Atkins One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might...
The War on Terror will never end, nor is it meant to end . . . The Long War will eternally justify what are ostensibly temporary measures: suspension of civil...
We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as I know, do not agonize about the canine condition. -- Karen Armstrong Virtually every federal agency is now...
A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it. -- Holly Sklar and Rev. Paul Sherry Nukes breed nukes. As long as some nations continue to insist...
The current administration could turn the most milquetoast moderate into a radical. -- Dana Spiotta Silence is not a winning strategy. -- People For the...
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. -- Barnett Brickner Well, I really think he shatters...
I believe the only truly radicalizing force is people's desire to change their own lives for the better. -- Ellen Willis It makes no sense to fight religious...
Critical thought . . . the other national deficit. -- Bumper sticker Politicians scramble to build more prisons than schools and pay guards more than teachers....
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The function of freedom is to free someone else. -- Toni...
There's a Buddhist metaphor that says all religions, gods, saviors, sages, and teachings are so many fingers pointing to the moon. The object, of course, is to...
