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.
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Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
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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.
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One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.
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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.
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That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.
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Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.
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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.
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The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.
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