"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Indira Gandhi

"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence." -- Pearl Bailey (1918-1990)

"35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war." -- Jeff Bridges

"The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything." - Albert Einstein


"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein


"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man." - attributed to St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226 C.E.)

"It was quite incomprehensible to me ... why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace." - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)


"mitakuye oyasin"
(we are all related)
- Lakota

"If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion." -- Dr. Helen Caldicott, Australia, 4/20/01


"It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Canada, editor of Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment

"Every fish that swims silent,
Every bird that flies freely,
Every doe that steps softly,
Every crisp leaf that falls,
All the flowers that grow,
On this colorful tapestry,
Somehow they know,
That if man is allowed,
To destroy all we need,
He will soon have to pay
With his life
For his greed."

- Don McLean (from the title song of his album "Tapestry", 1970)

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." --- Adlai Stevenson, American politician

"Courage is not demonstrated by domination of others, but in mastery of our deepest emotions. Transforming fear and hate into compassion for all human beings is a powerful way to turn the world away from darkness." - [quote originator unknown]

"Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race." -- Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at World War II Nuremberg Trials

"I give you a legacy of doers, of people who take risks to chisel the crack wider. Take the strength that you may wage a long battle. Take the pride that you can never stand small. Take the rage that you can never settle for less." - Pat Parker (1944-1989)

"... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.” --- Danny Glover

"Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air." - Pete Seeger

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." - Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

"War was born from rotting wounds left unkissed." -- YaliniDream


[YaliniDream is a Queer Sri Lankan Tamil raised in outside lands. She conjures spirit through her unique blend of poetry, theater, song, and dance. Joined by cellist Varuni Tiruchelvam, percussionist Seema Pandya, YaliniDream's vigorous performance travels thru many spaces from the humorous conflict of a young girl's dilemma between sexy thoughts and bedtime prayers to a mother coming to terms with her daughter's sexuality & community's contradictions to the heart wrenching stories of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. YaliniDream journeys this terrain through a hybrid form of dance that draws upon contemporary and classical South Asian forms as well as US Urban dance forms such as Popping, Hip Hop, and Experimental House.]