function init_random_quotes ( weighting ) {

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "In 1972 people in Ann Arbor were in line past midnight to vote for McGovern, after it was known he would lose.";

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Before he became famous, Bob Seger demo'ed some of his songs for us, but we said, \"No thanks.\" We wanted to write our own material."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I played golf with a former FBI agent recently. He apologized for the surveillance and dirty tricks that they were doing to us in the sixties."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "We could've made a fortune on the John Sinclair Freedom Rally. But at Sinclair's insistence we could only charge $3 per ticket."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Jim Osterberg (Iggy Pop) worked for me as a painter. He turned the rest of the crew on to pot. After that they never got any work done."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I once lost money booking Bob Seger, and I was only paying him $500."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Once when my mother came to pick me up at school, we drove past the White Panther house on Hill Street. There was a big banner that said \"Free John.\" She thought it meant a free toilet."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Food was vile in the sixties."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "There was a sense of being able to change the world back then — that what you did mattered."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I don't know how we made it through the sixties. On one day you would go through seven different emotions."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Years later I cleaned myself up and got a job at Domino's corporate headquarters. I ended up running into the former Sheriff Harvey. He didn't recognize me. I wonder what he would have thought if he had known that I had been one of the protesters he'd been clubbing ten years earlier."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "LSD made me think of things I never thought of, make connections I never would've otherwise. At some point it stopped bringing revelations, so I stopped doing it."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I started to get worried when my friends who dealt pot started carrying guns."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "There used to be people on street corners giving away free bags of oranges and onions. They put the oranges and onions into the semi trucks that were hauling the pot to Ann Arbor, because it masked the smell. When they got here they didn't need them anymore, so they handed them out on the street."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Every so often there's a musical renaissance in an American city. Minneapolis in the eighties, Seattle in the nineties. Ann Arbor was that kind of place in the sixties."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "There used to be a saying — Michigan is tilted and all the nuts roll down to Ann Arbor."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "John Norman Collins worked with my fiancee. Because of that he was followed by the police sometimes."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Back in those days there was cooperation and civility between Republicans and Democrats — not like today."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Perry Bullard (a Democratic legislator) copied all the HRP (Human Rights Party) platforms — we used to call him \"Purely Bullshit.\""

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I remember going to a party in downtown Ann Arbor where two people arrived on horseback."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I was kicked out of the Peace Corps because I promoted birth control."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Bob Seger's song \"Main Street\" is about Ann Arbor. But it's not about Main Street. What he sings about in the song actually happened on Ann Street. I guess he thought \"Down on Main Street\" sounded better than \"Down on Ann Street.\""

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "In Ann Arbor today it's a complete shift from the sixties. Now the townies are liberal, and the students conservative."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "In 1960 I was teaching at the War College. I had inside information about Vietnam, that there were already thousands of our troops there, and that they were taking a licking."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Tom Hayden was one of my students. He was a wise ass. He would call me a \"limousine liberal.\""

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "One time in the seventies a planeload of pot came in to Willow Run airport, and General Manuel Noriega himself was on board. He went to the Landing Strip bar. The newspaper reported that a guy dressed as Noriega was there that night."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Bob Seger used to get a bottle of whiskey, climb up on the roof of his parents' house, and wail away on the guitar until the cops came. He'd say to them, \"Come up and get me!\""

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "As I was driving to Ann Arbor to start my freshman year at the University of Michigan, all I could think of was John Norman Collins and the Co-Ed Murders."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Back in the sixties, the <i>Michigan Daily</i> was a real paper. Everybody couldn't wait to read it."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "You could smell tear gas and blood in the streets."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The University of Michigan stole Robben Fleming from the University of Wisconsin. He kept the peace in Ann Arbor but left Madison with the violence."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I lived for a while at Rudy Fink's commune on Catherine Street. The love wasn't as free as I had expected."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When I was at Community High, one year the homecoming queen was a gay male student."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Ozone House (a youth shelter) was named that because Commander Cody were playing their song \"Lost in the Ozone\" on the floor above where the first meeting took place."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The sixties couldn't have happened without drugs."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "America has never had a true peace movement."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Ann Arbor was substantially different then, in ways I can't really describe."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Sheriff Harvey didn't like me because I had long hair."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "As a black student trying to rent an apartment in Ann Arbor in the early sixties, I had a lot of trouble. When I would call about an ad, I would always ask, \"Do you mind renting to Negroes?\" So I didn't have to waste a trip out there. A lot of times the landlord would see you were black and then say, \"Oh, that apartment was just rented.\""

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "By 1968, everyone was joining the movement because it was the cool thing to do. Those were not my people anymore."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "In '68, Bill Ayers proudly declared that he didn't read books."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Those people who were preaching revolution in the sixties were neurotic. I can't imagine what it would have been like with them in power."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Kids don't have the same patience now. They couldn't sit through those endless organizational meetings."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The sixties were an empty triumph, the kind where you win, but the world after you is worse in a lot of ways."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "We were sitting around in our rental house one night, smoking pot and having a good time. There was a knock at the door. It was this nice-looking, middle-aged, well-to-do lady. She had a basket of fruit. She said she was from the welcome wagon. We learned later that she was an FBI informant."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "It was a huge role-playing game, where we were playing activist."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I didn't think John Sinclair was so revolutionary. It was just grass. Everyone smoked grass."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I remember when I went to the Doors concert in '67. It wasn't a matter of whether I would do drugs, but how much was I going to do."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) group at the University of Michigan started out as a folksinging club."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The Dean of Women at the University of Michigan, Deborah Bacon, wasn't just strict. She had a network of taxi drivers who would report to her if a female student was going out with a man of another race. Tom Hayden eventually got her kicked out of the university."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The day the JFK was shot, thousands of us sort of wandered into the Michigan Union, and stood around in a daze. There were a couple of televisions there, and we all gathered around those, listening to the reports."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I was on the <i>Gargoyle</i> (the University of Michigan student humor magazine) at the same time that Tom Hayden was editing the <i>Michigan Daily</i> (the student newspaper). He never smiled."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "In the early seventies an FBI agent came in to my shop to ask about the bank robbery that took place next door. The robber had disguised himself as a hippie and left the bank and just melted into the crowd."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Us townie kids liked to play pranks on the university students. Sometimes we'd spray them with wiper fluid."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I came from a high school near Detroit, where we had real problems. People were getting stabbed at basketball games. When I came to Ann Arbor to go to college, I thought a lot of what the students were doing, like skipping class to protest racism, seemed like it was kind of silly and wouldn't help anyone."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Vietnam was the element which combined us all."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "There was an electric energy everywhere. You could walk down State Street and just feel it."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "During the BAM (Black Action Movement) strike they used to disrupt classes and once locked all the doors of Frieze Building and put chewing gum in the key holes to keep students and professors from attending classes. A most interesting time."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The view of the sixties was, \"We can do something about it.\""

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Tom Monaghan (founder of Domino's Pizza) now likes to have dinner parties in this little tarpaper shack. I guess he grew up in a place like that. I think it might be his \"rosebud.\""

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Even the cops were smoking dope back then."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I remember helping to unload a semi truck full of marijuana at the Holiday Inn in the middle of the day. We took it off the semi and put it into the backs up pickup trucks."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "One of the first big dope dealers in Ann Arbor would take $100 bills and set them on fire."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I liked the danger of driving a truck full of dope."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "During the marijuana heyday, hippies used to walk around with grocery bags full of cash. Nobody got in trouble unless they tried to do something \"smart\" with the money, like put it in a bank. That sounded the alarms."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "During the marijuana heyday, hippies used to walk around with grocery bags full of cash. Nobody got in trouble unless they tried to do something \"smart\" with the money, like put it in a bank. That sounded the alarms."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When we moved from New York to Ann Arbor in 1970 it seemed like the \"Land of Dick and Jane.\" Monolithic, all white, no colors at all. Not like New York."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Once I went to speak at a White Panther meeting. There was an informant in there, because later I got my FBI files and saw that they had taken down my speech word-for-word."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Once Abbie Hoffman called the house and asked to speak to my son, who was twelve at the time."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "After the John Sinclair concert, Phil Ochs came to stay the night at our house. It was amazing. People got out the pots and pans to bang on them and make music. For a long time after we were using dented cookware."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I stayed to watch the riots on South University. I left when the sheriffs cocked their rifles."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Back then, drugs were tied to something, like exploration or politics. Now they're not tied to anything. It's self-destructive."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Back then, at middle-class dinner parties people would pass the joint instead of having dessert."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When John Norman Collins was going around killing those girls it was like living in a horror movie."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Kids who were doing drugs would get committed to the Sisters of Mercy mental hospital. I broke my friend Doug out of there and he hid out at our commune. He hid in a secret room under the floor that had been used for the underground railroad."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When Jane Fonda came to stay at the White Panther commune she brought along her French nanny. I spoke a little French and the nanny and I would sit in the hall and talk and smoke hash."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "We heard that pot was growing wild in Indiana so we went down to pick some. It turned out you couldn't smoke it."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When I was in the White Panthers we mailed joints to members of the Michigan Senate, anonymously."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "One time at the White Panther houses they took all the doors off the bathrooms, because everybody was supposed to be equal."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Jane Fonda came to stay with us for a while at the White Panther house. What did we talk about? Probably LSD, which we were both taking then."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I worked at Mark's Coffee House. Iggy Pop came in there all the time, before he was Iggy Pop. Once he asked me out. I said no. He was creepy."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Most the of the people involved in the South U. riots were of university age. I don't know if they were actually attending the university or not, but they were the right age."
	
	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Jerry Rubin really liked me. He wanted me to be \"Miss Yippie\" or something."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I can't believe that Diana Oughton would ever have wanted to kill anyone with those bombs. I sometimes think that she deliberately set those bombs off (in the Greenwich Village townhouse) so that innocent people wouldn't be hurt."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Ann Arbor became more liberal in the sixties because of new people moving in. It wasn't that the long-term residents were changing their ideas."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "People would hand me drugs and I would just take them. Now, I think that was pretty stupid."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I think I was very lucky to have been in Ann Arbor at that time."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "During the BAM strike I remember walking a picket line with (television chef) Sara Moulton."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "A friend of mine came to Ann Arbor for the Blues and Jazz festival. He didn't have anywhere to stay, so he went up to a guy mowing a lawn and asked where would be a good place to stay. The guy said, \"Stay at my place,\" and tossed him the keys."

	if (weighting) { random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = random_quotes[random_quotes.length - 1] }

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Those SDS guys were so sexist."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I tried out to be a backup singer for Bob Seger. He said I was too old. I was in my mid-twenties."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "My sister worked for the NSA. She investigated the Robert Kennedy assassination. She became convinced it was a conspiracy. She quit and became a Democrat, and ended up on the enemies list."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "My brother threw an egg at the television when Nixon got on and announced the escalation of bombing in Vietnam. I can still see the broken yoke sliding down the glass over Nixon's pouting face."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I had an FBI file solely because I attended Tribal Council meetings and hung out at the Rainbow Houses. The skimpy little one-page report simply stated that I was involved in these meetings. I was fifteen, sixteen years old at the time."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "Gallup Park, where we had free concerts during the late sixties, we wanted to name after Diana Oughton. I don't think the City of Ann Arbor ever got behind that rechristening."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I remember being lied to about the effects of marijuana, then discussing the lies with my pot-smoking friends. The propaganda films said we'd hallucinate and lose our minds. Instead we found ourselves utilizing the grass as a tool for enhancing the way things really, really were."
	
	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The White Panthers were heavily infiltrated by government agents. I'm starting to think that a lot of the weirder stuff we did was actually initiated by them."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When Joan Baez came to town she stayed at our house. Later she told us that she thought her son had been conceived in our bathtub."
	
	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "The music, the sex, the drugs, it all blurred together.... We thought it would last forever. The joke was on us."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "When I was a sophomore in high school my friend and I campaigned for John F. Kennedy for president. We would pass out flyers at the football games."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "A lot of Ann Arborites from the sixties moved out to Santa Monica. That's why in the eighties it became like another Ann Arbor, with rent control and that sort of thing."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "I remember in my senior year in high school that Bob Seger played the talent show. He brought the house down."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "We used to call the Ann Arbor Film Festival the \"Crotch Festival,\" because that's what always seemed to be up there on the screen."

	random_quotes[random_quotes.length] = "In 1960, whenever it would rain in the summer, everyone would run outside. They went to roll up their car windows. By 1970, nobody did that anymore, because everyone had their cars locked. Everyone was afraid that \"they\" would take your stuff. \"They\" usually meant black people."


} //init_random_quotes

function get_random_quote () {

	var index = Math.floor(Math.random()*random_quotes.length);
	
	if (index < 0) { index = 0 }
	
	if (index > random_quotes.length - 1) { index = random_quotes.length - 1 }

	return random_quotes[index];

} //get_random_quote