What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.