Marianne Williamson

One way or the other, our corrupt status quo is going to be disrupted; there's more agitation brewing out there than many of our elite now seem to think.

Our enlightened ideals have always been accompanied by a violent streak, like an unholy double helix that is part of America's DNA.

Love gives no one victory in battle; it lifts us above the battlefield.

It doesn't matter whether the enemies of democracy are foreign or domestic, born of a global virus or an all-American homegrown authoritarianism, let our generation be no less prepared than any other to take them on.

The military is so much a part of the way we function that those born since 9/11 have grown up never having known an America not at war.

Perhaps if enough of us pre-emptively grieve, then enough of us will pre-emptively act.

More and more Americans on both the left and right now realize that our democracy has turned into an oligarchy.

What does citizenship mean now?

Whether it's Republicans who don't want you to help anyone—or Democrats who want you to help as many as you can but make sure you don't upset the neoliberal order—take their calls, of course, but be careful not to take their bait.

The wisdom we most need at this point will come not from looking at any portion of a corrupted political system to save us. It will come first from looking at ourselves.

Now is not the time to lock any doors to either perception or understanding; we should certainly not be discounting ancient sources of knowledge out of hand.

Are we ready to exchange our prolonged adolescence for the mantle of a mature adult generation, released at last from our obsessive attachments to things that don't ultimately matter?

Americans didn't get what any of us would have wanted this year, but in many ways we got what we needed.

Joe Biden's win is not a healing; it's a reprieve. Now, not later, is the time to make that very clear both to ourselves and to him.

It's no wonder that a soulless economic and political system that disregards the well-being of its people produces chronic anxiety and despair.

A tremendous battle will be waged on November 3. Individually and collectively, we the people must now step in. No one is going to save us but ourselves.

We have to take full responsibility for the thoughts and actions that led us here. Then, and only then, will we be on the path to recovery.

We have a collective mental health issue that has poisoned our country's soul.

We must get over the idea that someone has to agree with us, or be the same age as us, or look like us or love like us, to be one with us.

In the richest nation in the world, millions of children are hungry, homeless and showing signs of PTSD. None of this is necessary, and all of it is an indictment of a society on the verge of losing its soul.

If you've been kicking people to the ground for centuries, you owe more to them than merely to stop kicking. You owe it to them to help them get back up.

We need to band together more than ever, argues Marianne Williamson