I Would Say When I Went To

To Me, Activism Requires You To Try Very Hard To Open Your Eyes To The World As It Is. See As Much As You Can, Knowing That Whatever You See Is Going To Be Partial. That You Possess A Partial Consciousness In An Infinite And Expanding Universe.

I Would Say When I Went To Michigan. It Started. I Got Very Very Involved In Civil Rights In Ann Harbor Right Away. Picketing, Something I Never Even Knew Existed.

Something About The Fact That An African American Had, Given The Long Sad History Of Our Country, Now Become President - That Was Exhilarating.

There Was Always Resistance And There Was Always A Counter-narrative, But We Were Told All Through The Early Twentieth Century That Black People In The South Don't Want An Education, They Don't Want To Vote, They're Simple People, They Don't Want This, They Don't Want That.

When I Was Arrested Opposing The War In Vietnam In 1965, As I Said About 20 Or 30% Of People Were Opposed To The War. By 1968, More Than Half Of Americans Were Opposed To The War. If You Pull In Europeans, Canadians, People From Around The Third World, The War Was Vastly Unpopular. But Even Half Of Americans By 1968 Opposed The War.