Quotes from Jodie Evans

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.

For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.