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Chicago '68 Was A Relatively Small Demonstration For Its Time, But I've Talked To Millions Of People Who Claim They Were There Because It Felt Like We Were All There. Everyone From Our Generation Was There And Was At Woodstock.

It Was The Democratic Party, It Was The Presidential Election. We Elected A President [barack Obama]; We Didn't Elect A King. So All The Speculation In The Next Three Months - People Camped Out At His House, And Wondering Who's Coming To Visit, Who's Going To Be The Secretary Of State - That All Struck Me As Inane And Stupid.

Let's Look At Two Things Real Quickly: The Civil Rights Movement In Mississippi In The Sixties And The Arab Spring Starting In Tunisia And Cairo. What They Had In Common Was People Who Were Told, And Who Believed Inside Themselves, That They Were A Certain Way, And The Society At Large Believed It.

To Be A Human Being Is To Suffer. But It's The Unnecessary Suffering, It's The Suffering That We Visit Upon One Another, That Really Should Be Stopped.

I Said Something Idiotic Like, As [william] Shakespeare Says, "action Is Eloquence," And The Judge Just Frowned At Me And Gave Me A Couple Weeks In Jail.