I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.