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

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

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.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?