What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.