Word: tb
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...Portion of the world population carrying the TB bacillus; it kills 1.7 million annually...
...TIME: If I read the book correctly, the genesis of the idea for the Poor People's Campaign comes from Marian Wright [who, under her married name, Marian Wright Edelman, later became head of the Children's Defense Fund]. TB: Absolutely, and the genesis to go to Selma comes from Diane Nash. In many respects, Diane was the most unsung heroine of the whole movement because in earlier times, she was right up there on the Freedom Ride. She's an innovator in nonviolence, and King gave her his highest award and I think he recognized...
...TB: Well, I always think there's hope for anybody, and the Women's Movement-he was discussing that. I mean he was talking about it. He recognized it as an issue not only of politics but of his own mental health toward the end of his life, but I don't think that he transformed his life...
...TB: This is an issue-the way I think of and treat women is an issue of my own identity and health. Because he was discussing that. There are little hints of that. But his life was cut short. There was a transitional time really for everybody on things that his movement had set in motion. He was cut down, so we don't know what he would have become privately...
...TB: Well, I don't know. I just finished this one. I know the next thing won't be this long. It's not going to be another three volumes, but my guess is it's going to grow out of it. It's been such a profound education for me to live with this for almost 24 years, that there is a lot there and I hope to wrestle with some of the themes. Maybe not some of the people, but some of the ideas in it. But I want to get back to books that only take...