That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

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

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.