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

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

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