We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

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

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

I know that's a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to open your eyes, act and doubt. And then you have to repeat for a lifetime.