It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson..

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory..

Nixon probably was a nice guy..

When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Amer….

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961..

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled..

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going….

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating..

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things..

We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to ….

We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology ….

I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the….

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end..

The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their li….

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs..

Now in my view, if you were to line up the Presidents in the order of who made the greatest accomplishments, you'd put Lyndon Johnson in that arena w….

It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society w….

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived..

Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach….

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that….

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little pers….