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The War Comes Home: The Political Crises of the 1960s. The New Left: The Port Huron Statement, 1962. “the goal of man and society should be human independence”
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The New Left: The Port Huron Statement, 1962 • “the goal of man and society should be human independence” • “in a time of supposed prosperity, moral complacency and political manipulation, a new left cannot rely on aching stomachs to be the engine of social reform”
Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967 "A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.
The Weathermen, the Yippies, the RYM, and the “Days of Rage”, Chicago, 1969