You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
I don’t think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.
I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it.
I don’t regret setting bombs.
One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.