Guilty As Hell. Free As A Bird.

I Was Terrible Student At Michigan, Terrible. Because There Was Too Much Else To Do. I Was Learning Form Too Many Other Sources To Go To Class.

Agitators, Organizers, Activists, Intellectuals Aren't Bound By Those Rules. We're Not Trying To Figure Out, How Do I Thread This Particular Needle?

Now Teach-ins Are Fairly Common Or They Become Common Place. But In 1965, The Students For Democratic Society In Ann Harbor Organized The First Teach-in. The Way It Happened Was That We Were Advocating For A Strike That We Advocated That The Faculty Should Strike In Solidarity With The Vietnamese Struggle.

The Great Example, The Killer Example In History, Is Of Course Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator. Read His Speeches. Read The Debates. Wendell Phillips Called Him "the Great Slaver From Illinois."

Teaching Has Always Been, For Me, Linked To Issues Of Social Justice. I've Never Considered It A Neutral Or Passive Profession.