Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

I don't come from a privileged background.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

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.