Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have any political instincts - just like the working class in America, apparently - and then suddenly what the hell happened? What was that? They changed the world by changing themselves. Now is that over? No. Is the civil rights movement over? No. These movements have not accomplished what they set out to accomplish.

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.