Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.

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

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.