When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

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.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

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

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.