I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral dimensions of the time and I was drawn to i….

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war..

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go….

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor ….

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we bel….

Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurge….

I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at….

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he ….

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in t….

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. Wha….

I know that's a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to ope….

All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their eyes, to pay attention, to act on what th….

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of….