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

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

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

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.