I'd Been Arrested Many Times By Then.

I Get Up Every Morning And Think, Today I'm Going To Make A Difference. Today I'm Going To End Capitalism. Today I'm Going To Make A Revolution. I Go To Bed Every Night Disappointed But I'm Back To Work Tomorrow, And That's The Only Way You Can Do It.

It's Worth Remembering That In 1965, Something Like 20% Of Americans Were Against The War. Something Like 70% Were For The War. So, It Wasn't A Popular Or An Easy Thing To Do.

There Were No Political Ideas. It Was An Apolitical Time. It Was The '50s And In The Privilege Of The Suburbs.

Dunbar-ortiz Strips Us Of Our Forged Innocence, Shocks Us Into New Awareness, And Draws A Straight Line From The Sins Of Our Fathers-settler-colonialism, The Doctrine Of Discovery, The Myth Of Manifest Destiny, White Supremacy, Theft And Systematic Killing-to The Contemporary Condition Of Permanent War, Invasion And Occupation, Mass Incarceration, And The Constant Use And Threat Of State Violence.

I Was Arrested 1965. I Had Come Back From The Merchant Marines, Got Into Conversations About The War. I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam Until I Was In The Merchant Marines In Constitution Square In Athens, And I Picked Up The New York Herald Or The International Herald Tribune And There Was My First Introduction Of The Word Vietnam.