Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

I didn't kill innocent people.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.