My Dad Was A [theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

Fairly Apolitical. Kind Of Aspiring To Participate In Life. I'm 18-19 Years Old. Wanting To Dive Into The World And Finding The World Opening For Me In Ways That Were Unimaginable. I Didn't Sleep For The Whole First Year At University Because It Was Too Much Going On. Too Many Films To See, Too Many Concerts To Go To.

Let's Look At Two Things Real Quickly: The Civil Rights Movement In Mississippi In The Sixties And The Arab Spring Starting In Tunisia And Cairo. What They Had In Common Was People Who Were Told, And Who Believed Inside Themselves, That They Were A Certain Way, And The Society At Large Believed It.

[lyndon ] Johnson Was Responding To A Black Freedom Movement That Was Tearing The Country Open And He Did What He Had To Do As A Conservative Politician.

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.

We Should Open Our Eyes, See What's In Front Of Us, And Act.