I was involved in the anti-war movement..

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere..

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politic….

Politicians are conservative by nature..

When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of working with kids, bu….

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person..

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military t….

Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to stopping the war or to seeing li….

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He woul….

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the s….

The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the s….

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in j….

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work..

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program..

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement..

It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation ….

Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about the working class he….

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we….

There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling..

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on..

I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When the family came out, that made me cry,….