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

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to stopping the war or to seeing life in certain way. There were very few of us who were there, and those of us that were had an illusion about ourselves.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.