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

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

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