I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

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 came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that's always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.