Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

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

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].