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

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

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

We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You're not going to teach them; they're going to reinvent it.

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

The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.