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When We Heard About The Hippies, The Barely More Than Boys And Girls Who Decided To Try Something Different ... We Laughed At Them. We Condemned Them, Our Children, For Seeking A Different Future. We Hated Them For Their Flowers, For Their Love, And For Their Unmistakable Rejection Of Every Hideous, Mistaken Compromise That We Had Made Throughout Our Hollow, Money-bitten, Frightened, Adult Lives

A Democratic State Is Not Proven By The Welfare Of The Strong But By The Welfare Of The Weak.

Language Is Political. That's Why You And Me, My Brother And Sister, That's Why We Supposed To Choke Our Natural Self Into The Weird, Lying, Barbarous, Unreal, White Speech And Writing Habits That The Schools Lay Down Like Holy Law.

There Is A Man Who Exists As One Of The Most Popular Objects Of Leadership, Legislation, And Quasi-literature In The History Of All Men. . . . This Man, That Object Of Attention, Attack, And Vast Activity, Cannot Make Himself Be Heard, Let Alone Understood. He Has Never Been Listened To. . . . That Man Is Black And Alive In White America Where The Media Of Communication Do Not Allow The Delivery Of His Own Voice, His Own Desires, His Own Rage.

Freedom Is Indivisible, And Either We Are Working For Freedom Or You Are Working For The Sake Of Your Self-interests And I Am Working For Mine.