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mm hmm. Well because the young are not yet locked into um any system at all. It's true the young don't remain young very long, but they don't have yet. What a man of my age would have to protect or defend. They know that there's something wrong

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with the wall. There's something wrong with the city's something wrong with what we call our priorities. Something wrong with, with, with the whole state of human life in this country now. Something wrong with the idea of putting property before before people. Which is part of the

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real, real trouble. What do you foresee in the coming four or 5 years in terms of the struggle? Oh really? There's too many things, you know, if I answered in one way I would be accused of inciting to riot. If I can't quite answer that, you

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know, I'm not a prophet. It depends very much depends entirely on what the american people are willing to do about the people who represent them. We're not, they're willing to change society or at least to examine it and decide what to decide what to do about

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it. Listen up to me, it is in my hands, James baldwin, Are you an optimist or a pessimist? I'm an optimist today because I'm surrounded by so many young people and when I'm surrounded by people my own age, I'm a little more pessimistic