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sipp.i $16,000 a month not to plant
crops, while that same state allots
$B.OO a month to feed a starving
child.
Gregory warned all who per
petuate the sick system that a new
breed of black man and a new
breed of student are emerging.
The panty-raid mentality is passed
and the day is approaching when
a “Brooks Brothers suit and a
haircut” will no longer be substi
tutes for human compassion.
He urged students not to make
the mistake of using college as a
means to make a living. Instead,
he told his listeners to learn to
live.
’’Don’t try to be somebody, hell,
you were born somebody!” pro
claimed Gregory.
He also told his predominately
youthful audience not to look for
their image as it is mirrored in the
“white cracker, right-wing, estab
lishment newspapers.” “Every
Establishment newspaper in Amer
ica is too immoral and degenerate
to discuss what you are all about.”
On gun legislation, Gregory
pointed out the insanity of need
ing a prescription to buy medicine,
but not needing a permit to pur
chase a gun.
Assassination of any public fig
ure, regardless of ideology, says
Gregory, should be a matter of
national concern. The same re
sponse must be felt for all victims,
for George Lincoln Rockwell as
well as for John Kennedy, for
Malcolm X as well as for Martin
Luther King. Until we learn to
value all human life, no one’s life
has value.
A truly non-violent man himself,
one who “would rather be killed
than kill,” Dick Gregory made it
explicit that he did not come to
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On Wednesday, October 15, Mor
atorium Day, Strom Thurmond,
Republican senator from South
Carolina, addressed a full house at
the Forum.
Senator Thurmond set the tone
for the evening, when he declared
of himself, “I’m often wrong, but
I’m never in doubt”.
The senator was certainly not in
doubt about military spending. A
member-of the conservative Armed
Services Committee, and a dis
tinguished veteran, Thurmond
puts military advancement first on
his list of budget priorities be
cause “America must achieve and
maintain military supremacy over
the Soviets.”
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preach non-violence because, dis
gusting as it is, in our society
violence seems to pay dividends
that peaceful dissent could not
secure. He pointed to the Amer
ican Indian as an example of the
non-progress that passive resist
ance has wrought.
On Vietnam, Gregory, like his
audience, was adamant. If we
supported true democracy and
made it work at home, he asserted,
we would not have to force it down
other people’s throats with guns.
He pointed also to the tragedy of
blacks giving their lives in Viet
nam while at home their families
are restricted from equal employ
ment, education, and housing.
By far the most dramatic mo
ment came when Gregory read
from our Declaration of Indepen
dence, the document which estab
lished a precedent for revolution
when guaranteed human and legal
rights are denied.
After an enthusiastic standing
ovation, .Mr. Gregory received
questions from the audience.
He cited a long list of defeated
amendments, which had been de
signed to curb Pentagon spending,
in order to show the audience that
he and most other senators had
America’s security in mind when
they voted to begin production of
such “defensive” investments as
ABM and SST.
Moving quickly from missiles to
law and order, Thurmond scarcely
gave his critical audience a chance
to protest.
He stated uneqivocally that he
thought dissent was healthy, but
he also believes those who dis
sent militantly on college cam
puses and elsewhere must be pun
ished for all the.ir unlawful ac
tions.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the final
speaker of “Impact Week” ad
dressed a large and assenting au
dience at HACC, Monday, October
20.
Concerning himself mainly with
the Vietnam war, which he labeled
“an abomination,” the 66-year old
author and baby expert stated that
the limitations of Nixon’s person
ality render him incapable of end
ing the conflict. “Only the Amer
ican people can end it ... by closing
in on him (Nixon) and applying
pressure, pressure, pressure.”
Part of the pressure, he added,
would be the November 14-15
march on Washington.
Looking to the future, Spock
called for a post-war movement
to work for amnesty for persons
imprisoned for draft resistance
and anti-war activities.
Although calling for militant ac
tion against the war, the doctor
rejected the use of violence in so
cial protest.
In all, though, both Doctor
Spock and “Impact Week” itself
were well received by students and
the involved public alike.
Hopefully, more such stimulat
ing events will be promoted and
presented in the Harrisburg area.
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