Chicago '68 Was A Relatively Small Demonstration

I Don't Know Why There's Not More Activism Today. I Do Think That Your Generation Is Twenty Times Smarter Than Our Generation Ever Was, But The Problem With Being Smart Like You Guys Is That It Can Lead You Really Easily To Being Cynical, And Cynicism Is Actually A Pacifying Attitude.

After I Had Known [barack Obama] For A While, I Remember Saying To My Partner, "you Know, This Guy Is Really Ambitious, I Think He Wants To Be Mayor Of Chicago." That Was The Limit Of My Imagination.

We All Want To Believe This American Pastoral, But There's More To It. We Have To Be Willing To Exile Ourselves From The Fantasies And The Mythology That We Create Around Ourselves, Or We're Doomed To Kind Of Innocently Blunder Into Every Country In The World And Murder People.

I'm Anti-establishment. So All The Labels, The Reason That I Keep Joking And Rejecting This Idea That I'm Liberal, Well Partly That's Because I Think Of Myself As A Radical, And By That I Mean, Not Even In The Terms Of Left-right That You Might Imagine - But Someone Who Wants To Go To The Root Of Problems.

Martin Luther King Was Only An Activist For 13 Years And Every Year He Changed And Every Year He Became More Radical. By The End He Was Calling For Revolution. People Don't Know This Because They Go To Too Many Prayer Breakfasts On His Birthday.