I Wasn't Part Of John Kennedy's Vision

I Have An Addiction To Caffeine.

In Cairo, These Young Men Hanging Around In The Street, We're Told These Guys Are Lazy, They're Uneducated, They Don't Care, They Don't Have Any Political Instincts - Just Like The Working Class In America, Apparently - And Then Suddenly What The Hell Happened? What Was That? They Changed The World By Changing Themselves. Now Is That Over? No. Is The Civil Rights Movement Over? No. These Movements Have Not Accomplished What They Set Out To Accomplish.

I Was Arrested In 1965 For Opposing The War In Vietnam. There Were 39 Of Us Arrested That Day. But Thousands Opposed Us. And The Majority Of The People In The Country Supported The War Then.

Where's The Activism? Nobody Knows. And Anyone Who Thinks They Know, Like Todd Gitlin, Has Their Head Up Their Ass. Nobody Knows. The Day Before Every Revolution That's Ever Happened, That Revolution Was Impossible. The Day Before Rosa Parks, That Was Impossible. The Day After, It Was Inevitable.

Now Teach-ins Are Fairly Common Or They Become Common Place. But In 1965, The Students For Democratic Society In Ann Harbor Organized The First Teach-in. The Way It Happened Was That We Were Advocating For A Strike That We Advocated That The Faculty Should Strike In Solidarity With The Vietnamese Struggle.