I'm Not So Much Against The War

I'm Not So Much Against The War As I Am For A Vietnamese Victory. I'm Not So Much For Peace As For A U.s. Defeat.

The Truth Is That The Antiwar Movement Was Powered By The Working Class. The Students Were The Ones That Got The Media And So Forth, But It Was The Soldiers On The Ground Who Really Energized The Antiwar Movement In The Late Sixties.

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.

There Was Always Resistance And There Was Always A Counter-narrative, But We Were Told All Through The Early Twentieth Century That Black People In The South Don't Want An Education, They Don't Want To Vote, They're Simple People, They Don't Want This, They Don't Want That.

All That Means To Me Is That People Who Have A Vision Of A Better World Have A Responsibility To Open Their Eyes, To Pay Attention, To Act On What The Moment Demands, And To Be Humble About That Action.