"Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all."

"The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues."

"I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."

"I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions."

"It is a unyielding truth that peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes."