[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

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