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

You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don't feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily--obviously not completely--moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.

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.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.