Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
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.
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of the sit-in and I had decided that I was going to go get arrested, and he decided that he was going to have the harder job and go tell our parents that I'd been arrested.
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.
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