Terrorists destroy randomly.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

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

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

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