We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the same time the reasons why we were at San Francisco State in the late sixties was because of the agitation and movement building that had occurred within our communities. We saw ourselves not separate from the community but intimately connected to it.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.