It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.