Occupation: Professor Birth: December 26, 1944
This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their ….
When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for ….
The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I p….
We were very excited and we brought speakers in then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothe….
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were….
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to w….
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters..
I don't regret setting bombs..
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession..
I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism..
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism,….
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war..
My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat..
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful..
To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stoppe….
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it..
I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person..
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position..
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election..
We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan..
One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, y….