I Was Involved In The Anti-war Movement.

[barack Obama] Was Running For Senate And He's Saying, I'm Not For Gay Marriage Because I'm A Christian. Jump Off A Bridge! I Mean What The Hell Are You Talking About? You Know, I Mean, What's He Doing Now? He's Evolving. Evolving? Well, Evolve For Christ's Sake! And This Is A Guy - The Whole Gay Community, And The Whole Environmental Community And All These Other People Said, He's Our Guy.

Certainly My Parents Were Dr. [benjamin] Spock-driven Parents. So They Were Tolerant.

If You Were Against Slavery In 1840 And A White Person, You Would Have Been Against The Law, The Bible, Your Church, Your Pastor, Your Parents, Common Sense, Tradition, Everything. You Would Have Been Against Everything.

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.

One Question Is: Who Is The Working Class Today, And How Has It Changed? Where Are We In That? I Don't Have A Knee-jerk Kind Of 1930s Thing About We Must Build The Unions And That's The Way To The Future. I'm Writing This Book Right Now Called Pallin' Around, And The Subtitle Is: "talking To The Tea Party." And Frankly I Find Talking To The Tea Party Exhilarating, I Love It.