Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were s….

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure..

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire..

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in ….

I didn't kill innocent people..

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….

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see..

Terrorists destroy randomly..

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening..

My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "….

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights..

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights,….

I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean.….

What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five kids. So I had the great advantage of being ….

I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at l….

The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will end. And I'm certa….

[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are ….

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda..

My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of th….

I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were openin….

One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we h….