It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.'

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of humankind, it seems to me.