Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them..

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….

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven..

We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You….

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

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone..

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a….

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

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell P….

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.….

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….

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

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-commun….

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they'r….

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

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..

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

I have an addiction to caffeine..

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat..

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even….