We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.