"If you feel discouraged about it. If you feel...defeated and all those things; feel bad. It's okay. Feel discouraged; feel disgusted; feel defeated. Feel that for awhile, and then get back up and start fighting again. It's not because it's a good idea. It's not because it would make a better world. It's because we have to. It's out of necessity. It's for our survival. It's for the survival of real democracy, which they are nibbling away at and cutting back at with all sorts of repressive laws. And it's for the very survival of the Earth itself.

I have a friend who...had a neck problem. He went to an acupuncturist. And the Chinese acupuncturist put a needle in his wrist. Put one in his leg. And he said: 'Wait a minute - I don't get the connection. I got a neck--neck is hurting me and you're putting a needle in my arm and in my leg. What's the connection?' And the Chinese acupuncturist said: 'Whole body connected, take a look.' You know, that typical Chinese gentle contempt for the Western idiocy.

And so what we gotta say: 'Whole society connected; take a look.' 'Whole universe connected; take a look.' It's our universe, and we have got to fight to keep it."

-----As seen on: Michael Parenti Cheers You Libs Up