Giving Up The Weapons Of Privilege
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:17:59 AM
Note: Embedding audio files seems to be broken/prevented again. So here is a [direct link] This will be my last blog post at my.opera. It used to be great.
"You came in to the world armed to the teeth with an arsenal of weapons. The weapons of privilege. Racial privilege. Sexual privilege. Economic privilege. If you wanna be a pacifist, it's not just giving up guns, and knives, and clubs, and fists, and angry words, but giving up the weapons of privilege and going in to the world completely disarmed." --Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970)
Utah Phillips -- Korea
With music by Ani DiFranco.
"You came in to the world armed to the teeth with an arsenal of weapons. The weapons of privilege. Racial privilege. Sexual privilege. Economic privilege. If you wanna be a pacifist, it's not just giving up guns, and knives, and clubs, and fists, and angry words, but giving up the weapons of privilege and going in to the world completely disarmed." --Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970)







slackwrdave # Saturday, June 2, 2012 5:01:06 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammon_Hennacy
Harry...the man!harrytheman # Monday, June 11, 2012 2:04:47 PM