Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.