I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their eyes, to pay attention, to act on what the moment demands, and to be humble about that action.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.