When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Be Wrapped In The Flag And Carrying A Cross.

-- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

Giving Up The Weapons Of Privilege

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.


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)

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Comments

slackwrdave Saturday, June 2, 2012 5:01:06 AM

The brief Wikipedia page on Ammon is exciting. One of his books is available as e-text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammon_Hennacy

Harry...the man!harrytheman Monday, June 11, 2012 2:04:47 PM

Cheers guys. Was quite ignorant on Ammon before up

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