Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

Americans love to read about violence.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.