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That, that, that getting a yes. Don't you could play when summer comes around. He'll be lucky to get out of town the door to keep out the Lord's burning rain. Well, the science tell

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us it'll all wash away when we back. Check your I DS at the this old earthquake's going to leave me in the poor house. No plated door. Keep out the Lords her. I will not carry myself down to do when I go to my grave. Well,

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and let me in my foot. Oh, no, no. Always been. People can cause they've been talking about a war now deep down in your soul. Yeah. In your Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Kindness, truth, faith, trust, et cetera. These words have all been somehow put

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in a category of either poison or utopian or worthless or that's all right, honey. You'll understand that, that, you know, you'll be like me once I was idealistic too. But I found out that that doesn't work whatever that means. I have a sneaking suspicion that things

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that are decent and things that are ethical, things that are truthful are also practical. And I think that what's happened is for 5000 years, men have been trying to avoid that because I think it is easier not to be decent and not to trust that we

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have enough love in ourselves to do something aside from being violent and something, aside from being stupid, I think that we've reached the stage. I know we have in this decade where at least in this country, anything aside from violence is really almost totally misunderstood. I

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won't go deeply into non violence at this point except to say that it's a word that up until King was completely understood, misunderstood. And after King, I think was even more misunderstood. And so I would say then to leave out words that people react violently to

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violence, Nonviolence, et cetera, what is it? That's crushing us? I think that if we look carefully, I think that we cannot let our passivity and our fears and our feelings of impotence get in the way that even if we feel as though nobody will really listen

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or I'm not eloquent enough, you have to get up and say what it is, you have to say anyway. And then of course, you have to act upon that. I think for there are some people in the audience who are old enough to be paying income

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tax. I say that's a very clear way that we keep the military in motion. Uh 83% of your tax dollar pays for the nation state and keeps things all nicely propped up, 83% of the dollar goes directly to military. And if it's about it, you're supporting

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the most outrageously vicious system that exists on this earth today. And the least you can do for those of you who pay income tax is, don't, you don't have to, I mean, the tax collector, you might as well let him do his job. He'll come around

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and he'll get his goodies. But in the process, some kind of learning may take place and it's a difference between, between offering it to him and forcing him to confiscate the money from your bank or from your mattress or wherever you keep it. I think that

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when we discuss how we keep the military going, you took the other day said you'd be a good tree surgeon, you know, and so little by little the dreams you had when you were tiny, which I'm convinced that we could hold on to those dreams and

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we could do them by the time you graduated, they've been leveled off to where they call common sense and you are left castrated and thinking that you cannot do anything. You really cannot do anything. What can I do if I don't have a degree? Nobody listen

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to me. If I don't go to school, look, nobody's gonna listen to you. If you do go to school, you all know that. Now the state is really obscene that a flag or a country is more important than a human life. It seems really obscene to

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me. But you and I will see that every human life on the face of it, perhaps it's a way to phrase the most immediate problem. We have to say that the reason to have something like today and hopefully the reason that everyone is here is an

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attempt to make sense. I mean, that what we should engage in is really an attempt to see those things around us, see those things next to next to us and try and make sense out of those. What I'm going to try and do today is to

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try and make some sense out of America to try and give some present some way that we can understand an overwhelming phenomenon that we all live in the middle of. But before I do that face, which is ourselves for a moment, let's say that the most

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basic problem that any of us has. And the one problem that we all have to attend to every day is the problem of living all of us, whether we like it or not have lives to lead, all of us have to make those very basic, very

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small, very mundane kinds of decisions that people make as they choose to live. What I would.