Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

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

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.