What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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

[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.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.