I Was A Kid And I Studied

Jane Addams, Founder Of Hull House, Once Asked, "how Shall We Respond To The Dreams Of Youth?" It Is A Dazzling And Elegant Question, A Question That Demands An Answer--a Range Of Answers, Really, Spiraling Outward In Widening Circles.

To Me, Activism Requires You To Try Very Hard To Open Your Eyes To The World As It Is. See As Much As You Can, Knowing That Whatever You See Is Going To Be Partial. That You Possess A Partial Consciousness In An Infinite And Expanding Universe.

One-hundred Facts About Vietnam And We Studied The Fact Sheet And Got In To These Arguments And It Was Fantastic, And I Remember One Moment When We Heard Two Students Saying Don't Talk To Those Guys, Meaning My Brother And Me. They've Just Memorized That Stupid Fact Sheet. And We Thought, Gosh Do We Sound That Good? It Didn't Seem Possible. But That Was My Introduction To Politics.

I've Said For Thirty Years That Capitalism Is An Exhausted System. But Now You Can See The Handwriting Everywhere. And One Especially Horrifying Part Is The Fiscal Crisis.

I Came Back To Ann Harbor, Got Caught Up With People Who Were Much More Sophisticated Than I, And It Was An Exciting Time Because My Eyes Were Opening And That's Always Exciting And Michigan Is The Place Where We Had The First Teach-in Against The War.