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

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

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

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.