Here’s an interesting statement from Martin Sheen in a recent interview with him:
I have no interest in politics. But I have a great deal of interest in peace and human rights and civil disobedience to address grievances, to speak truth to power – I have a great interest in that, and that’s really the only way the world gets changed. People who suffer and who know what suffering is and take it to a higher level and create a movement, but it rarely starts from the top, like someone who’s elected is going to change things. No. They start wars and levy taxes and so forth, but they don’t change your life. Reverend King will change your life……. Peace and social justice issues I get involved in. I have no illusions. I’m not going to change the world. I don’t even change myself. I’m still struggling to free myself. I can’t hope to get anybody to my opinion or my side. I don’t have any illusions about that. I do it because it’s the only way I can identify me. I do it because I cannot not do it and be myself.
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