I Was A Good Liberal In Some

Every Politician - Fdr, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - They're All Conservative By Nature. They Are Part Of The Big Thing And They're Moving In A Very Constrained World.

The Fact Is That In My Prep School, I Went To A Boarding School, 39 Young Men Graduated From That Prep School. Five Years Later, A Quarter Of Us Were In Sds, In Students For Democratic Society. Not Because We Were Particularly Chosen Or Because We Were As I Say, We Were Lucky But We Were Mainly Luckily To Grow Up At A Time Where This Black Freedom Movement Was Really Defining The Moral Character Of What It Meant To Be A Citizen And A Person.

Chicago '68 Was A Relatively Small Demonstration For Its Time, But I've Talked To Millions Of People Who Claim They Were There Because It Felt Like We Were All There. Everyone From Our Generation Was There And Was At Woodstock.

Being Arrested That Also Changed Everything For Me Because I Was Suddenly Seeing America From A Different Perspective All Together. I Did A Couple Of Weeks In A County Jail.

I Mean The Prime Case That You Can Look At Is Martin Luther King, Who Was Only An Activist For 13 Years. But Every Year, He Became Deeper, More Concerned, Connecting More Issues.