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...only because of our inability to sustain long-term commitment. American students struggled through the 1960's to end America's role in Southeast Asia, and the effort did meet with some success. An incumbent President was driven from office. A national political convention was reduced to a riot, and revealed as the fraud it really was. All things change, and the student movement fell apart--we expected too much too soon. We should have learned from the Vietnamese, who have been fighting for their freedom for a thousand years. Social justice is not a gift--it must be fought...
...concede that the black man does not necessarily want to integrate with him, see. And the fact that we had begun to educate religiously along the lines of Islam meant that he couldn't join us either, they started rumors. You know, there's going to be a race riot. Well, you see, we wasn't talking about race riots. We was talking about history and facts. But they had to find some way to shut us up; so they locked us up. They locked up seven of us, but they didn't lock nobody white up. It's just...
...clear that they are not going to give me a chance. You were right, that is exactly what they fear. Just because I want to be my black self, mentally healthy, and because I look anyone who addresses me in the eye, they feel that I may start a riot anytime. I've stopped more trouble here than any other black in the system...
...inmates--Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette--were charged with the murder of John Mills, a white, 26-year-old guard at Soledad. Mills's death occurred less than a week after another white guard, O.G. Miller, shot three inmates to death, allegedly in an effort to prevent a race riot in the small exercise yard for Adjustment Center cons at Soledad. All three of the cons Miller killed were black. all three had been classified by prison authorities as militants...
...preached in Jersey City. A week later in Cambridge, Md., amid racial tension, he declared: "If America doesn't come around, then black people are going to burn it down." After parts of Cambridge did indeed burn down that July of 1967, Brown was charged with inciting to riot and arson. He vanished in March 1970 while out on $10,000 bail, shortly after a bomb blast killed two of his associates while they were driving in Bel Air, Md.-where pretrial hearings for Brown were being held...