It's Not Lyndon Johnson Who

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.

We All Want To Believe This American Pastoral, But There's More To It. We Have To Be Willing To Exile Ourselves From The Fantasies And The Mythology That We Create Around Ourselves, Or We're Doomed To Kind Of Innocently Blunder Into Every Country In The World And Murder People.

I'd Been Arrested Many Times By Then. I'd Been An Organizer, So Many Things Had Changed Over Those Three Years [from 1965 Till 1968].

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.

I Didn't Kill Innocent People.