When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent