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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.093516.14875@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:35:16 GMT
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- " [..] I'm not so sure that I would agree with Larry [Agran] that
- it's a matter of _rediscovering_ our democracy. I think it's a
- question of _refashioning_ our democracy. [..] that which was, was
- never adequate in the first place..[..] The struggle therefore is
- to *finish* the unfinished democracy. To *perfect* the imperfect
- union [...] in this country. And so even *before* the cold war it
- was not perfect. [..] The intervention in the affairs of Central
- America didn't begin with the cold war."
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- "Africans in this country, brought to this country in chains, 100
- million Africans brought not because people thought they were
- inferior, not because of racism, but because of *economic
- exploitation* [...] But not for the first 50 years could all white
- *men* vote, only *white men with property*. Why? Because from the
- very beginning, this union, the assumption was, if this country could
- be put in the hands of the propertied classes, if *they* are secure,
- everybody in America is supposed to be secure.
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- " [..] you know, if you look at the founding fathers sitting around
- that table, they were all fathers, no mothers sitting around --- [...]
- there were no people there with buckskin britches and coonskin caps
- there. There were no *workers* sitting at that table. It was a
- revolution for the aristocracy and for the monied classes from the
- very beginning."
-
- -Presidential Candidate Ron Daniels
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-
- CANDIDATES FORUM, 21 MAY 1992
- OAKES COLLEGE, UC SANTA CRUZ
- LARRY AGRAN (DEMOCRAT), RON DANIELS (PEACE & FREEDOM)
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- Transcribed by Don Fong
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- For more info about the Daniels Campaign:
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- If you have access to ftp, do "ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu"
- login as "anonymous" and do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map"
- and then "dir *daniels*
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- Then "get file.name" the files you want.
- Then "quit" to get out of ftp and the files will be sitting in your
- home directory.
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