It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you..

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics..

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still th….

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one..

I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, try….

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class..

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today..

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty..

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable..

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live]..

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act..

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities c….

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part….

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy..

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician..

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity..

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge..

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, bu….

The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long.….

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die..

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the U….