Intro

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[Intro] [?] I repeat [?] "I find I agree with an awful lot with what everybody's been saying as far as the violence of this society and... But it's really hard to say anything when you haven't done anything about it." "Confront all the [?] ideas and [?] things about this culture and this society. Overcome them, become a force for change and bring about that change, but it won't happen by wishing you were so or by proclaiming it. It will only happen through direct struggle and confrontation." "We no longer wish to be treated as statistics." "I think it's a common mistake to think that violence is a choice and political matter. Violence еxists in certain social situations, and it's not a question of choosing to be violеnt or non-violent." "When you are putting forward the idea of revolution, you have a responsibility to build in from the very beginning. The realization that no revolution can take place successfully without an armed confrontation with the, with the state. The imperialist power will, for as long as it can, with the most advanced technological weapons that it has. And I feel that pacifism and non-violence becomes an excuse for not struggling, for not fulfilling what I feel is a human obligation in this world to bring about revolutionary change and to destroy an imperialist system." "We no longer wish to be treated as statistics." "Why hasn't the popular struggle in this country been more successful? Why hasn't there been a revolution? One of the main reasons, well the main reason, is that people are provided against each other. The people who run the country are very good at this. They've managed to turn men against women, they've managed to turn white-collar workers against blue-collar workers. But mainly for 400 years they've managed to turn white people against black people." "Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as a cherry pie." "This is the [?]. You can't win. You can't work well. What can you accomplish? There's nothing you can do. The United States government is so powerful." "What you do doesn't make any difference. You don't matter. All I'm [?] just the opposite to people who see the difference. What people do or don't do determines the outcome of things." [?] "We no longer wish to be treated as statistics." [?]