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My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

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I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

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The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

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No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 17th, 1942

Died: August 22nd, 1989

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