Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

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.