What We Need Is A Gigantic, Messy

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.

I Thought In 1965 That My Job Was To Convince Most Americans To Be Against The War. So I Spent Summers Knocking On Doors, Handing Out Literature, Trying To Talk To People Who Didn't Agree With Me, Trying To Get Them To See The War Was Wrong. And By 1968 A Majority Of Americans Did Oppose The War.

It Was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - These Were The People Who Made Abolition Real. Now, None Of You Guys Is In Favor Of Slavery, Right?

[lyndon ] Johnson Was Responding To A Black Freedom Movement That Was Tearing The Country Open And He Did What He Had To Do As A Conservative Politician.

I Was A Child Of Privilege And I Woke Up To A World On Fire.