Education Is A Right, It's A Journey,

It Felt To Me Like I Was Living My Life In A Way That Didn't Make Mockery Of My Values. That's What I Intended To Do. So, That Became A Very Radicalizing Proposition For Me.

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.

It Wasn't [barack] Obama Per Se; It Was The Feeling On The Ground; It Was Seeing An Old Black Woman In A Wheelchair Being Wheeled By Her Son Waving A Big American Flag, And Then Seeing A Guy With His Baby In His Arms Saying, "i Didn't Want Her To Miss Tonight! I Wanted To Be Able To Tell Her!" And To See All These People, A Hispanic Cop Dancing With An Old White Woman, Wow! I Mean, That's The World I Want To Live In, And Because It's The World I Want To Live In, I Had A Hard Time Leaving.

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.

I Was A Kid And I Studied When I Had To [live].