Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for r….

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities..

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at..

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they t….

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have any poli….

I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters..

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam..

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. N….

There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the B….

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas..

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip..

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, commo….

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools..

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there..

I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think….

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968]..

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is pu….

One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communiti….

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michi….

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is..

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna..