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I Spoke At The University Of Georgia, And A Whole Contingent Of Tea Party People In Hell's Angels Regalia Came In And Sat In The Front And Scowled At Me While I Gave My Talk. And Afterwards The Head Of The Group Got To The Microphone And Said, I'm Surprised That I Agree With Almost Everything You Said, But I'm Worried That You're A Big Government Guy.

Chicago '68 Was A Relatively Small Demonstration For Its Time, But I've Talked To Millions Of People Who Claim They Were There Because It Felt Like We Were All There. Everyone From Our Generation Was There And Was At Woodstock.

What Was On The Agenda Was School And Social Life And Those Kinds Of Things. So I Was The Middle Of Five Kids. So I Had The Great Advantage Of Being Able To Play Up To The Older Kids And Play Down To The Younger Kids And I Think That's Part Of What Propelled Me To Become A Teacher At Some Point In My Life. But It Was A Comfortable Childhood. It Was A Privileged Childhood.

In A Wild And Diverse Democracy Each Of Us Should Be Trying To Talk To Lots And Lots And Lots Of People Outside Of Our Own Kind Of Comfort Zone And Community, And That Injunction Goes Even Further For Political Leaders. They Should Talk To Everyone, They Should Listen To Everyone, And At The End Of The Day They Should Have A Mind Of Their Own.

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.