I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.

I don’t regret setting bombs.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war...

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.

Chicago ’68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I’ve talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was...

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you’re not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that’s going on. Try...

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it’s like being in a Days Inn; it’s very clean and very nice.

It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.

We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

I didn’t respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

I was a militant.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

I didn’t kill innocent people.

Terrorists destroy randomly.