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I Suffer From A Genetic Flaw, Which Is That My Mother Was A Hopeless Pollyanna.

I Was A Good Liberal In Some Sense At That Point. I Wanted To End A War. I Wanted To Support The Civil Rights Movement.

I Know That's A Little Jarring, Coming From A Weatherman, But What I Mean By Being Humble Is Doubting If Your Action Did Anything. So You Have To Open Your Eyes, Act And Doubt. And Then You Have To Repeat For A Lifetime.

That's In The Nature Of Social Change. So You Can Analyze What Didn't Work, But It's Very Hard To Predict What Will Work.

I Was From My Little Perch In A Prep School I Saw The Civil Rights Movement And It Was Defining The Moral Dimensions Of The Time And I Was Drawn To It And I Read James Baldwin And Read Invisible Man And These Were My Touch Points. But It Was When I Got To Michigan And Saw A Bigger World, A Real World, That I Got Involved.