It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

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 was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

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

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.