My Dad Was A [theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

The World Spends Two Trillion Dollars A Year On Military, And Of That Two Trillion The United States Spends One Trillion. We Have A Bigger Military Than The Rest Of The World Put Together. We Have 150 Foreign Military Bases.

There Was Always Resistance And There Was Always A Counter-narrative, But We Were Told All Through The Early Twentieth Century That Black People In The South Don't Want An Education, They Don't Want To Vote, They're Simple People, They Don't Want This, They Don't Want That.

That's Where We All Kind Of Were In The Mid-1960s. Students For A Democratic Society Grew From A Small Group Of Socialists At The University Of Michigan Into A National Organization, And In Many Ways, Its Growth Was Driven By The Vietnam War.

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.

We Were Very Excited And We Brought Speakers In – Then It So Happened That There Was A Marine Recruiter In The Center Of Campus And One Of Our Brothers, One Sds Person Put Up A Sign With A Quote From The Nuremberg Trial And An Arrow Point At The Marine Recruiter, Saying, "this Man Is A War Criminal." My Younger Brother And I, He Was Freshman And I Was A Sophomore, Got Caught Up In The Debates That Were Swirling Around The Center Of Campus And The Young Trotskyists Had Put Out A Fact Sheet On Vietnam That Was Phenomenal.