[martin Luther King] King Was A Socialist

Let's Look At Two Things Real Quickly: The Civil Rights Movement In Mississippi In The Sixties And The Arab Spring Starting In Tunisia And Cairo. What They Had In Common Was People Who Were Told, And Who Believed Inside Themselves, That They Were A Certain Way, And The Society At Large Believed It.

This 1965. We Went To Trial On Our City. We Were Obviously Borrowing Tactics And Strategy From The Black Freedom Movement, And We Were Echoing Their Approach To Things.

Education Is A Right, It's A Journey, It's A Process, And It's Something We Have To Stand For, As Hard As It Is.

I Don't Know Why There's Not More Activism Today. I Do Think That Your Generation Is Twenty Times Smarter Than Our Generation Ever Was, But The Problem With Being Smart Like You Guys Is That It Can Lead You Really Easily To Being Cynical, And Cynicism Is Actually A Pacifying Attitude.

It's Not Lyndon Johnson Who Makes The Black Freedom Movement; It's The Black Freedom Movement Who Makes Lyndon Johnson.