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

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that's always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.

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

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.