"Human liberation and the protection of nonhuman life are not merely compatible -- both are necessary."

"The United States was born in a revolution, and some of its most revered Founding Fathers extolled the right to make one."

"Nor can the nation-state and the capitalist system survive indefinitely. Not only is this system widening the divisions between rich and poor around the world into a yawning chasm, but it is also on a collision course with the biosphere."

"Without ecology, society cannot exist, and without humanity and nature, ecology cannot exist."

"The establishment of a citizens' assembly is not in itself a fulfillment; until its participating citizens develop radical content, it will be only an institutional structure."