Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.