We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

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

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.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.