I Was A Kid And I Studied

I Think That You're Smarter Than We Were, But We Had Two Things: One Is, In Our Naïveté We Believed We Could Change The World. And Number Two, We Believed That Another World Was Possible. And Once That Belief Took Hold Of Some Critical Mass, A Tiny Minority Nonetheless, But A Critical Mass Of People, Then The World Did Change.

In Terms Of My Own Behavior And Activity, The Funny Thing About Regrets And Saying "i'm Sorry," Is That There's So Much I Would Do Differently And Want To Do Differently Moving Forward.

I Suffer From A Genetic Flaw, Which Is That My Mother Was A Hopeless Pollyanna.

I Don't Know Why There's Not More Activism Today. I Do Think That Your Generation Is Twenty Times Smarter Than Our Generation Ever Was, But The Problem With Being Smart Like You Guys Is That It Can Lead You Really Easily To Being Cynical, And Cynicism Is Actually A Pacifying Attitude.

I Taught. I Lectured At Universities. I Spoke To My Students. I Spoke In Certain Public Forums. But What I Didn't Do Was Respond To Microphones Being Thrust In My Face And Saying, What Is Your Relationship With Obama And Are You An Unrepentant Terrorist?