In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?

One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.

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.

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.