[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.