I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

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

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

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