Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

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

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

Terrorists destroy randomly.