If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois."

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.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.