Vigil: Baez
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(applause) | 0:03 | |
- | Yeah, right. | 0:12 |
- | Okay. | |
- | They'll each make 10 minute presentations, | 0:13 |
and then you will be able to question them | 0:16 | |
by giving questions to the monitors on the sides. | 0:19 | |
First of all, Mr. Santo. | 0:23 | |
- | Well, first of all, I wanna say it's absolutely a joy, | 0:26 |
a sight to see all of you. | 0:30 | |
It's very lovely, nothing any of us can say can compare | 0:33 | |
to seeing all of you out here. | 0:36 | |
I think, maybe, you really can transform this campus | 0:40 | |
and maybe you can transform this part of the United States. | 0:45 | |
If you do more than that, well, that's pretty good, | 0:52 | |
but I mean, even if you do this, | 0:54 | |
and I think you will, looking at your faces. | 0:56 | |
It's not only racial injustice, | 1:03 | |
but it's the injustice of people calling themselves | 1:05 | |
presidents of universities and all that sort of thing. | 1:09 | |
It has no part in education. | 1:12 | |
It's your education, | 1:16 | |
and I think you should teach your teachers | 1:19 | |
how to make an education work. | 1:21 | |
And when I say work, | 1:25 | |
I mean so we really become some sort of human being. | 1:27 | |
Not an American, not a capitalist, not a communist, | 1:31 | |
but really a human being. | 1:35 | |
So I think you have a real job to do, | 1:38 | |
and that's for you to teach your teachers. | 1:42 | |
Most of them, having their PhDs, are really dumb by now. | 1:44 | |
I mean, it's a very callousing experience. | 1:47 | |
You haven't gotten yours yet, | 1:52 | |
and maybe have sense enough not to. | 1:55 | |
It's really very bad. | 2:00 | |
The more degrees you get, the less you have to say, | 2:03 | |
and the less you're willing to say it. | 2:05 | |
I would urge us to sit on the lawn. | 2:10 | |
(applause) | 2:13 | |
I've been a teacher off and on all my life, | 2:20 | |
and classrooms were tiresome. | 2:24 | |
At best they're tiresome. | 2:27 | |
And at worst, they think you learn something in them. | 2:29 | |
Well obviously you really don't. | 2:33 | |
Someone like Socrates, he wouldn't get near a classroom. | 2:35 | |
He was always on the streets of Athens. | 2:39 | |
That was the trouble with Socrates, | 2:41 | |
he's was on the streets of Athens, | 2:43 | |
he wouldn't go in Academy. | 2:44 | |
Well I don't think we should go in Academy either. | 2:46 | |
I think at this particular juncture | 2:50 | |
of not only American history, but world history, | 2:52 | |
we really have to learn about | 2:59 | |
the social organization of nonviolence and what it means. | 3:00 | |
Because all over the world, not just in the United States, | 3:04 | |
though the United States I would say | 3:08 | |
is the greatest culprit, | 3:09 | |
the social organization of violence | 3:11 | |
is the most, somehow, engulfing part of our world. | 3:13 | |
Everyone agrees that we can kill the bad guy. | 3:20 | |
There's just a little disagreement on who the bad guy is. | 3:24 | |
And of course, that varies from season to season. | 3:28 | |
If I'm a Cuban who's a bad guy, | 3:32 | |
and sometimes it's a German, | 3:35 | |
and sometimes it's an East German and a West German, | 3:37 | |
and sometimes a Russian, and obviously the Vietnamese | 3:39 | |
are going to be at your shores any day. | 3:42 | |
That's perfectly obvious. | 3:46 | |
But the things that really remain constant, | 3:47 | |
and the things that I think | 3:51 | |
that you and I really have to really do battle with | 3:53 | |
and do nonviolent battle with, is fear. | 3:55 | |
It's fear that keeps men in uniform. | 3:58 | |
It's fear that keeps men killing each other | 4:03 | |
because if you don't kill them, | 4:06 | |
why, something terrible is gonna happen. | 4:09 | |
What is happened is men have gone on killing each other | 4:13 | |
for say, the last, 6,000 years, in a very organized fashion, | 4:15 | |
and we've gotten into the brink | 4:19 | |
of what may be World War III, | 4:21 | |
and certainly for the Vietnamese, | 4:23 | |
some absolutely horrifying experience. | 4:25 | |
And certainly for the young men, | 4:27 | |
the American young men who go over and suffer and die, | 4:29 | |
it's a terrible experience for them. | 4:32 | |
But all them think there's no option. | 4:35 | |
I think what you're showing on this lawn tonight | 4:38 | |
that is there an option. | 4:40 | |
There is an intelligent, there is a gentle, | 4:42 | |
there's a nonviolent option, | 4:44 | |
and I think we have to keep showing that option | 4:46 | |
over and over and over again. | 4:48 | |
(applause) | 4:50 | |
And I wanna close by saying I wanna thank you | 4:58 | |
for letting me come here, | 5:01 | |
and you've cheered me lots! | 5:02 | |
(applause) | 5:04 | |
- | I'd like to just start by saying | 5:14 |
that I think it's a beautiful sight | 5:16 | |
to see you all sitting out in the lawn, | 5:18 | |
and one of the reasons is | 5:21 | |
that means you're outside of the classroom. | 5:22 | |
I've always had a huge aversion to classrooms, | 5:25 | |
just myself, from kindergarten on up. | 5:27 | |
I think that this is maybe a little rough to say, | 5:32 | |
but I think when there really is a revolution on your campus | 5:35 | |
you'd be willing to walk off it and just stay off. | 5:38 | |
In the meantime, | 5:41 | |
it's lovely to see you sitting on the grass. | 5:42 | |
To try to explain one of the reasons | 5:46 | |
I think we find ourselves in the binds that we're in, | 5:51 | |
and I would say that Ira and David and I | 5:55 | |
have been on a national speaking tour | 5:57 | |
making ourselves as obnoxious as we possibly can. | 6:00 | |
We even went into Canada and did it there. | 6:03 | |
We've been saying that there is a time in your life | 6:07 | |
when you have to say no to certain evils, | 6:10 | |
and then you have to take consequences. | 6:13 | |
What we're really hung up about, | 6:15 | |
and what I've been hung up about all my life | 6:17 | |
as far as I can remember, | 6:20 | |
is the fact that people are willing to go on | 6:22 | |
hurting other people, and to try to understand why. | 6:24 | |
The reason we talk about it, is that we really think | 6:29 | |
that if something in all of us doesn't change, | 6:33 | |
make a major change, | 6:36 | |
then I think we're gonna blow ourselves | 6:37 | |
off the face of the earth. | 6:38 | |
And to try to understand what's happened to us, | 6:40 | |
I can try to explain it a couple of ways, the way I see it. | 6:44 | |
One way would be to say that since birth, | 6:48 | |
or maybe even pre-birth, | 6:51 | |
we've been raised to be schizophrenic individuals. | 6:53 | |
That is, that on the one hand, | 6:56 | |
as far back as we can remember, people have said, | 6:58 | |
"Be kind to one another, be loving, and love your enemy, | 7:01 | |
"love your neighbor, even try to love yourself. | 7:03 | |
"Be kind to small animals and birds and so on and so forth. | 7:05 | |
"Be a good family man." | 7:10 | |
But then at some point in your life, | 7:11 | |
and it really starts when you're tiny, | 7:13 | |
and it's sometimes subtle, other times not so subtle, | 7:15 | |
the least subtle point in your life | 7:19 | |
is when you're 17 and a half, | 7:21 | |
and you suddenly realize that you have to make a decision, | 7:22 | |
and then go against all the things that you've been taught | 7:25 | |
on the sort of pleasant side of your nature. | 7:28 | |
That is when nation state steps in and says, | 7:31 | |
"Everything is sacrificed to me." | 7:34 | |
Your church goes, your synagogue goes, | 7:37 | |
your love for mommy and daddy and their love for you goes, | 7:39 | |
and now you have to dawn the suite of the nation state | 7:42 | |
and go and shoot whoever they say to shoot. | 7:47 | |
And why? | 7:50 | |
Why we've let this go on for years and years and years? | 7:52 | |
My guess would be that it's easier | 7:55 | |
than standing up and saying no. | 7:56 | |
And you have an idea of what it's like here | 7:59 | |
just to stand up and say no. | 8:01 | |
It really takes some kind of momentum | 8:03 | |
and some kind of something to spur you on | 8:04 | |
to suddenly jolt you out of your day to day routine. | 8:07 | |
And here you sit. | 8:10 | |
I think something has to happen so that all of us see | 8:11 | |
that we're on the brink of destruction, | 8:14 | |
and then we can act differently | 8:16 | |
from the way we've been acting. | 8:17 | |
When we talk about nonviolence, | 8:19 | |
I would say nonviolence may be | 8:20 | |
the most totally misunderstood word in this century. | 8:22 | |
One of the reasons is that it's very young. | 8:26 | |
Organized nonviolence is very young. | 8:29 | |
And about Dr. Martin Luther King, | 8:31 | |
who was a good friend of mine, and I loved him very much, | 8:33 | |
I would say the relationship that Dr. King and I had | 8:36 | |
consisted of a four year argument | 8:40 | |
about what he was talking about | 8:42 | |
when he talked about nonviolence. | 8:43 | |
And basically, unfortunately, in this country, | 8:45 | |
the word nonviolence came to mean | 8:48 | |
"don't slug anybody while the cameras are rolling." | 8:50 | |
And that's why it's very confusing now | 8:53 | |
for people to understand what it is we're talking about, | 8:56 | |
and people are ready to say, | 8:59 | |
"Well it didn't work, you know, let's throw it out." | 9:00 | |
Well I don't think anybody really | 9:03 | |
went into it at any length at all. | 9:04 | |
What it really means, is it's a political word for love. | 9:07 | |
And what we say is that for centuries | 9:11 | |
men have been fighting in a very old hat fashion, | 9:13 | |
and the fighting has brought about more fighting | 9:15 | |
and more deaths and more misery, | 9:18 | |
and we're saying that to really fight, | 9:20 | |
to really bring about a revolution, | 9:22 | |
would mean to bring about a change. | 9:23 | |
And in order to do that, | 9:25 | |
you have to change your manner of fighting. | 9:27 | |
So I am now a committed nonviolent soldier, | 9:29 | |
and I say, I will accept suffering, | 9:32 | |
but I will never consciously inflict it | 9:34 | |
on another human being. | 9:36 | |
And that's really all nonviolence means. | 9:38 | |
And then to try to find out more about what's happened | 9:40 | |
in the history of nonviolence, | 9:43 | |
the best example, and we're thankful for Gandhi, | 9:44 | |
I'm thankful that Gandhi lived | 9:47 | |
even though Gandhi had his flaws too. | 9:49 | |
So he's the best person we have to kind of lean on. | 9:51 | |
I would say about nonviolence, | 9:55 | |
that it's a bit like when the earth was proved to be round | 9:58 | |
and nobody could give up a flat earth. | 10:01 | |
A flat earth had nothing in it's favor. | 10:04 | |
It had sea monsters at the edge | 10:06 | |
so you couldn't go fishing too far, | 10:07 | |
and you couldn't go sailing too far, | 10:09 | |
and you couldn't go exploring. | 10:11 | |
But when the earth was proved to be round, | 10:13 | |
men couldn't give up the flat earth. | 10:14 | |
There's even a society left in England | 10:16 | |
called the Square Earth Society. | 10:17 | |
All that means, I guess, is that somehow, | 10:20 | |
when we have a psychological vested interest in something, | 10:22 | |
even though it's worthless, it's difficult to give it up. | 10:25 | |
That seems to be where we've reached with violence. | 10:27 | |
Violence has nothing to show | 10:30 | |
for itself except more violence. | 10:32 | |
I mean, nothing. | 10:34 | |
Here we sit on the verge of World War III, | 10:35 | |
and we still say, "Ah, if anybody brings up the subject | 10:37 | |
"of something new, you're very naive, | 10:39 | |
"and that's not practical." | 10:42 | |
Well I would say to think that we can continue | 10:43 | |
the way we've been going for the last 6,000 years | 10:45 | |
is highly impractical and very idealistic. | 10:48 | |
My appeal to you, is that you turn, | 10:53 | |
as apparently some of you have done at this point, | 10:56 | |
to your conscience, if you don't like the word conscience, | 11:00 | |
individual responsibility. | 11:02 | |
Because I think that in order to keep this world revolving | 11:04 | |
with any human beings on it, | 11:07 | |
it really is up to you, it's up to each of you, | 11:08 | |
and not up to a daddy figure anymore. | 11:11 | |
Thank you. | 11:14 | |
(applause) | 11:16 | |
- | I guess, can people hear? | 11:32 |
I may have a little trouble cause I have a throat infection, | 11:34 | |
so listen hard. | 11:37 | |
I remember being at Duke a year and a half ago. | 11:40 | |
When I was here to speak, | 11:42 | |
I was afraid you all were gonna sit in my room. | 11:44 | |
Nice to see you chose someplace else | 11:46 | |
a year and a half later. | 11:47 | |
What I'd like to talk about is the draft, | 11:50 | |
but before I talk about that, | 11:54 | |
I'd like to begin with an assumption. | 11:57 | |
An assumption which many of you, | 12:00 | |
having sat in, may be well aware of. | 12:02 | |
The assumption that I wanna begin with, | 12:07 | |
is that what you and I posses as a tool, | 12:10 | |
the question of what it is we have is an instrument | 12:14 | |
with which to do change | 12:16 | |
and with which to bring about a new world. | 12:18 | |
The assumption I wanna begin with, | 12:20 | |
is that the instrument that you and I possess, | 12:23 | |
is really the instrument of a life. | 12:25 | |
Something beyond political programs | 12:28 | |
and beyond the political slogan. | 12:30 | |
That what matters, is really how you live | 12:32 | |
from day, to day, to day, to day, | 12:35 | |
and as you pursue a life from day to day, | 12:38 | |
you really build the terms that that life is lived in. | 12:40 | |
And as you and I try to understand | 12:43 | |
what's happened in modern America, | 12:45 | |
I think it's a mistake to say that the wrong politician | 12:47 | |
has made the wrong move at this point. | 12:51 | |
Or to say that somehow we've gotten on to the wrong policy. | 12:54 | |
I think what we have to understand | 12:58 | |
has happened in this country, | 12:59 | |
and what's happening today in Vietnam, | 13:01 | |
what's happening around the world as a foreign policy, | 13:03 | |
what's happening in American ghettos, | 13:05 | |
and probably most clearly to you, | 13:08 | |
what's happening in the American University, | 13:09 | |
is not that there's simply been a mistake, | 13:11 | |
but that what we see coming to fruition | 13:14 | |
is that basic way we've organized the society. | 13:15 | |
That basic set of logic that American society is | 13:18 | |
is coming to fruition in front of our eyes, | 13:22 | |
and that fruition and that logic, | 13:25 | |
I think are very clearly at this point | 13:27 | |
in direct contradiction with any notion of humanity. | 13:29 | |
So the task that you and I have | 13:32 | |
in relationship to this country | 13:34 | |
and relationship to the world, | 13:35 | |
is not a small one. | 13:37 | |
It's not simply a question of finding a new person to elect, | 13:38 | |
or finding a new policy to support. | 13:41 | |
What you and I must do with our lives, | 13:44 | |
is really begin to construct a whole new conciseness | 13:46 | |
and a whole new logic for this society and for the world. | 13:49 | |
And that's a question, not of great dramatic moments, | 13:53 | |
but of the less dramatic moments. | 13:56 | |
It's a question not of just today, | 13:59 | |
but of tomorrow and all the days after it also. | 14:01 | |
And I think what you and I can try and find | 14:04 | |
is a cogented meaningful statement | 14:08 | |
for the present state of being of the world. | 14:10 | |
I think the only statement I can find | 14:13 | |
that has that kind of meaning is a very simple statement. | 14:15 | |
That very simple statement is that all men are brothers. | 14:18 | |
And that the only worthwhile society, | 14:23 | |
is a society built around that principle of brotherhood. | 14:26 | |
And that what you and I must do with our lives, | 14:30 | |
is build that brotherhood into a social reality. | 14:32 | |
I think for anyone concerned with that kind of problem, | 14:37 | |
anyone that really feels that their lives must be used | 14:41 | |
to better the lives of their brothers, | 14:45 | |
that any young man facing that, | 14:48 | |
runs immediately in to a particular social institution. | 14:50 | |
And that's what I wanna talk about now. | 14:54 | |
That institution is the institution | 14:56 | |
of military conscription and the selective service system. | 14:58 | |
I think as we try and live lives, | 15:01 | |
what we can try and understand, | 15:04 | |
is what those things we participate in mean. | 15:07 | |
I wanna deal with I think three basic assumptions | 15:10 | |
that you build with your lives | 15:13 | |
as you participate in military conscription. | 15:14 | |
The first of those assumptions is a very clear one. | 15:17 | |
That is that the lives of every young man | 15:21 | |
in this country between 18 and 35, | 15:23 | |
belong not to those young men at all. | 15:25 | |
Rather, those lives are tools of the state. | 15:28 | |
Those lives are the possessions of the state | 15:31 | |
to be used whenever the state decides | 15:32 | |
a new policy of international murder. | 15:34 | |
I think the second assumption | 15:38 | |
is perhaps not quite as obvious, | 15:40 | |
but maybe the most frightening thing | 15:42 | |
about military conscription. | 15:44 | |
That assumption has to do with teaching. | 15:46 | |
For a moment, I want you all to think of your draft cards | 15:50 | |
as a teaching mechanism. | 15:53 | |
That you were given a draft card, | 15:55 | |
not basically because they wanted you in the army, | 15:57 | |
but because they wanted to teach you something. | 16:00 | |
They want to teach you a way of looking at your life | 16:02 | |
and a way of looking at the lives of people around you, | 16:04 | |
and a way of living that life. | 16:07 | |
For a brief moment, | 16:09 | |
I'd like to describe a phenomenon called channeling, | 16:10 | |
which is a basic part of the selective service system. | 16:13 | |
This idea of channeling was best espoused | 16:15 | |
by the selective service system itself | 16:18 | |
in a paper, peculiarly enough, entitled Channeling. | 16:20 | |
And they laid out this basic phenomenon. | 16:26 | |
That the selective service system's primary purpose | 16:31 | |
did not have to do with procuring man power, | 16:33 | |
but had first to do with controlling the lives | 16:37 | |
of young people, and channeling those lives | 16:38 | |
into activities that would promote the current set of values | 16:41 | |
and current social arrangement in America. | 16:46 | |
And the way that's done is very simply. | 16:49 | |
You create a broad context of pressure on people's lives, | 16:51 | |
mainly that those lives will be disrupted | 16:55 | |
and taken into the military. | 16:56 | |
In that context and pressure you established a number | 16:58 | |
of different niches or deferments. | 17:00 | |
Those deferments or niches are specifically designed | 17:02 | |
to meet the ends of the nation state | 17:04 | |
as selective service sees them. | 17:06 | |
Through the use of that pressure, | 17:08 | |
you force people to take up activities with their lives | 17:09 | |
that are not found in those lives at all, | 17:12 | |
but are rather found in the pressure | 17:14 | |
of the selective service system. | 17:15 | |
You force people to pursue activities, | 17:17 | |
which in the end, in social reality, | 17:18 | |
amount to making sure that America exists 20 years from now | 17:21 | |
as it now exists. | 17:25 | |
I think the most fundamental thing it teaches, | 17:27 | |
has to do with the motive energy of a life. | 17:30 | |
I think what it's taught young people in this country | 17:33 | |
is how to live under the auspices of fear. | 17:35 | |
How to continually make decision, | 17:38 | |
after decision, after decision, | 17:40 | |
not because of what you find in those decisions, | 17:42 | |
or what you find in your lives, | 17:44 | |
rather because of what you're afraid of. | 17:46 | |
In this society, I think we can generally characterize | 17:48 | |
as being motivated by that kind of fear. | 17:51 | |
I think you and I have a particular responsibility | 17:53 | |
to say that we refuse to live | 17:56 | |
under the auspices of that fear any longer. | 17:57 | |
That our lives will be used for something | 18:00 | |
other than building fear into a social mechanism | 18:02 | |
and into a society. | 18:06 | |
I think the third assumption of military conscription | 18:08 | |
is perhaps the most obvious. | 18:11 | |
That is that 80% of the people of the world today | 18:14 | |
live in misery. | 18:17 | |
One of the primary instruments | 18:18 | |
in terms of maintaining that misery, | 18:20 | |
is the American military. | 18:22 | |
The American military is fed by conscription. | 18:24 | |
I think what you have to realize at this time in history | 18:28 | |
and for the rest of your lives, | 18:30 | |
is that those people that now live in misery | 18:33 | |
are really your brothers. | 18:34 | |
And that you have a responsibility to those people, | 18:36 | |
and you have a statement | 18:39 | |
that you have to make to their lives. | 18:40 | |
That statement is gonna be made | 18:42 | |
by you taking on a task with your life. | 18:43 | |
By you taking on something that you're going to build | 18:45 | |
which offers a hope for them. | 18:48 | |
Because that's what they ask for. | 18:50 | |
They ask each of us, | 18:52 | |
what is that we are doing from day, to day, to day | 18:54 | |
that means perhaps their children will not starve to death. | 18:57 | |
That means perhaps, | 19:00 | |
that they may enjoy a roof over their head. | 19:02 | |
That means perhaps, | 19:04 | |
that they won't have to worry about the next week, | 19:06 | |
or the week after that when they may be murdered. | 19:08 | |
I think that's the kind of statement | 19:12 | |
that you and I have to make. | 19:13 | |
In reality it's a very simple statement. | 19:15 | |
The world that we deal with is perhaps a very complex one. | 19:19 | |
I think that if you make that statement of brotherhood, | 19:24 | |
it means there's no way that that statement | 19:27 | |
can coexist with military conscription. | 19:29 | |
That none of us can serve two gods at one time. | 19:33 | |
And if you decide you're gonna serve the god | 19:36 | |
of military conscription, | 19:37 | |
then you may as well forget about the god of brotherhood. | 19:39 | |
Because the two cannot coexist. | 19:42 | |
And you have to make a decision about the priorities. | 19:44 | |
The priorities are simple. | 19:48 | |
If you take that stance of noncooperation, | 19:50 | |
you're gonna become criminals. | 19:52 | |
All of you are gonna face up to five years | 19:54 | |
in a federal prison. | 19:56 | |
I'm presently on trial in the city of San Francisco | 19:58 | |
for having refused induction into the Army | 20:02 | |
after sending my draft cards back a year and half ago. | 20:04 | |
What I'd say, is I kind of dig it. | 20:07 | |
There's nothing I'd rather be | 20:11 | |
in modern America than a criminal. | 20:13 | |
(laughter) | 20:15 | |
(applause) | 20:18 | |
The whole time I was growing up, | 20:22 | |
I knew I was growing up to be something | 20:24 | |
and finally I found it. | 20:25 | |
(laughter) | 20:27 | |
It's a great feeling of satisfaction involved in that. | 20:28 | |
But I think that's the price. | 20:32 | |
And prices are put on things for a specific reason. | 20:35 | |
And the price of going to jail is put on that draft card | 20:39 | |
because they're sure, the people that put prices on it, | 20:42 | |
that you will choose all the day to day, | 20:46 | |
mundane pleasures of America. | 20:48 | |
You know, walking between the 19 cent hamburger stands, | 20:50 | |
and across the alley to the Nix gasoline station, | 20:52 | |
before you'll choose something vague and abstract | 20:55 | |
and far off, like brotherhood. | 20:58 | |
The assumption that we make is really the opposite one. | 21:01 | |
We feel that what's involved here today, | 21:04 | |
and what's involved in the lives | 21:07 | |
of young people all around this country, | 21:09 | |
is you're really looking for a way | 21:11 | |
to make your lives have meaning. | 21:12 | |
And that you're gonna choose that meaning | 21:14 | |
before you choose all those particular pleasures | 21:16 | |
of day to day America. | 21:18 | |
I think however you choose, | 21:22 | |
you have to understand that you make a choice. | 21:24 | |
That every day you carry a draft card, | 21:26 | |
you've decided to lend your energies | 21:28 | |
to a whole set of social forces in America. | 21:30 | |
I think the social forces divide fairly easily | 21:34 | |
into two camps now. | 21:37 | |
That is you either stand with death and oppression, | 21:40 | |
or you stand with life and brotherhood. | 21:43 | |
And those are the two camps you have to choose between. | 21:47 | |
I think as long as you carry a draft card, | 21:51 | |
you've made a choice. | 21:55 | |
You've decided that you're gonna lend | 21:57 | |
the energies of your life to death and oppression. | 21:58 | |
I think there's another choice available to you. | 22:02 | |
Which is you can stand up today, | 22:04 | |
and you can stand up tomorrow, | 22:06 | |
and you can stand up for the rest of your lives | 22:08 | |
with your brothers, | 22:09 | |
and you can say my life has no meaning | 22:11 | |
outside of their lives. | 22:13 | |
And that if we're gonna make it in this world, | 22:14 | |
then we're gonna make it together. | 22:16 | |
And that that's the obligation that I feel, | 22:20 | |
and that's the task that I have to being with my life | 22:23 | |
today, and tomorrow, and the next day, | 22:26 | |
and that we will never stop | 22:28 | |
until that brotherhood is built into a social reality. | 22:30 | |
And whatever the prices, and whatever the penalties, | 22:33 | |
they're nothing compared to the rewards. | 22:38 | |
And they're nothing compared to the brotherhood | 22:41 | |
that we've decided to live in. | 22:44 | |
(applause) | 22:46 | |
- | There is a standing ovation | 23:04 |
on the main quad for the speaker. | 23:06 | |
(applause) | 23:10 | |
- | Let me make an announcement about money. | 23:17 |
One of the things it takes | 23:19 | |
to do this kind of work is money. | 23:21 | |
(laughter) | 23:24 | |
At this point, people from the resistance | 23:26 | |
are gonna be passing a hat, | 23:28 | |
the results of which are gonna be used | 23:30 | |
to keep a few more resistance organizers alive | 23:32 | |
and fed for a little while longer. | 23:35 | |
So I guess we'll take a little break while those hats, | 23:37 | |
or whatever they are that's gonna be passed, are passed. | 23:41 | |
And then we'll have a period of questioning | 23:44 | |
where we can rap back and forth with you. | 23:47 | |
- | The people who are going to pass the hats | 23:53 |
are the row monitors. | 23:55 | |
Just walk down your rows... | 23:57 | |
(laughter) | 24:01 | |
Right, okay. | 24:03 | |
- | As you can hear, at the present time, | 24:04 |
a hat is being passed to collect money | 24:06 | |
for the demonstrators here | 24:08 | |
on the main quad of Duke University. | 24:10 | |
During this interim, let me take this opportunity | 24:14 | |
to fill those of you who are listening, | 24:17 | |
and were not listening earlier this evening, | 24:20 | |
in on the progress of developments. | 24:22 | |
The most specifically significant thing that happened | 24:26 | |
was that a strike was called at four o'clock this afternoon, | 24:28 | |
here in front of the crowd, | 24:33 | |
by the Duke University dining hall workers. | 24:35 | |
And that strike went into effect at four o'clock. | 24:38 | |
Now, also, the situation is not entirely clear at this time, | 24:42 | |
but it has become apparent that President Knight | 24:49 | |
is not at this time in control of University policy | 24:52 | |
regarding what is going on here. | 24:56 | |
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, | 24:58 | |
Wright Tisdale, has come in. | 25:00 | |
♪ - Kumbaya my Lord ♪ | 25:03 | |
- | This is Mrs. Baez, we'll cut to her. | 25:05 |
♪ - Kumbaya ♪ | 25:07 | |
♪ Kumbaya my Lord ♪ | 25:11 | |
- | Sing, sing. | |
♪ - Kumbaya ♪ | 25:16 | |
♪ Kumbaya my Lord ♪ | 25:21 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 25:26 | |
♪ Oh Lord, Kumbaya! ♪ | 25:30 | |
Fight for Justice. | 25:36 | |
♪ Fight for Justice Lord ♪ | 25:38 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 25:43 | |
♪ Fight for Justice Lord ♪ | 25:47 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 25:52 | |
♪ Fight for Justice Lord ♪ | 25:57 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 26:02 | |
♪ Oh Lord, Kumbaya! ♪ | 26:06 | |
No more drafting. | 26:12 | |
♪ No more drafting Lord ♪ | 26:15 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 26:19 | |
♪ No more drafting Lord ♪ | 26:23 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 26:28 | |
♪ No more drafting Lord ♪ | 26:32 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 26:37 | |
♪ Oh Lord, Kumbaya! ♪ | 26:41 | |
Kumbaya. | 26:47 | |
♪ Kumbaya Lord ♪ | 26:49 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 26:53 | |
♪ Kumbaya Lord ♪ | 26:58 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 27:02 | |
♪ Kumbaya Lord ♪ | 27:06 | |
♪ Kumbaya ♪ | 27:11 | |
♪ Oh Lord, Kumbaya! ♪ | 27:15 |
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