Guilty As Hell. Free As

The Massive Anti-war Movement, Which I Was A Part Of And Which Was A Major Part Of My Life, Never Stopped The War In Vietnam.

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."

I Wish I Knew As Much About Anything Today As I Knew About Everything When I Was Twenty.

If You Read Martin Luther King Speeches And Sermons In The Last Two Years Of His Life - You Might Want To - –when I Read These To My Students, They Think It's Malcom X Because It's So Radical. And If You Read Nothing Else - If Your Viewers Read Nothing Else - Then The April 4, 1967, Speech At Riverside Church Called "beyond Vietnam," That's Where He Says The Greatest Purveyor Of Violence On Earth Is My Country. And He Connects The Triplets Of Evil, Racism, Militarism, And Materialism, And That Connection Makes Him A Radical.

The Fact Is That In My Prep School, I Went To A Boarding School, 39 Young Men Graduated From That Prep School. Five Years Later, A Quarter Of Us Were In Sds, In Students For Democratic Society. Not Because We Were Particularly Chosen Or Because We Were As I Say, We Were Lucky But We Were Mainly Luckily To Grow Up At A Time Where This Black Freedom Movement Was Really Defining The Moral Character Of What It Meant To Be A Citizen And A Person.