Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

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

I don't regret setting bombs.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

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

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.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.