At the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod. Some are barefoot. Some are so young they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary and land for the landless. Some protest openly, doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. A have van naw, cuba, january, 1959, this road leads to this wall. Red china, september, 1960, this road, this wall. Berlin, december, 1961, this road this wall. In the beginning the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosophy and scholar, carl marx, who maintains only through a certain system can the farmer avoid starvation. Our ends can only be maintained by an overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus, the road begins. Many who walked the road know its origins well. Many do not. Some things must be known about the road by th
At the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod. Some are barefoot. Some are so young they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary and land for the landless. Some protest openly, doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. A have van naw, cuba, january, 1959, this road leads to this wall. Red china, september, 1960, this road, this wall. Berlin, december, 1961, this road this wall. In the beginning the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosophy and scholar, carl marx, who maintains only through a certain system can the farmer avoid starvation. Our ends can only be maintained by an overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus, the road begins. Many who walked the road know its origins well. Many do not. Some things must be known about the road by th
Narrator at the roads end, the wall. These are the people who live along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod, some are barefoot. Some are so young, they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest openly. It does not matter. Some are born on the road. Many will die along the way. Havana, cuba, january, 1959. This road leads to this wall. Red china, september 1960. This road, this wall. Berlin, december 1961. This road, this wall. Narrator in the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher, karl marx, who maintained only there a system he calls communism can the worker and farmer avoid starvation and exportation. We declare openly, marx writes, that our ends can only be attained with the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus the road begins. Many who walk the ro
He told me he didnt really understand why were in vietnam but they were very much against the behavior. And they thought there was antipatriotism, what they thought was not very patriotic. Where am where am i on questions and answering. One more. I guess i just wanted to say i think its important to remember that it took very, very little to provoke the fbi. I was a tax resistor, i was just a nobody but i decided i would not pay my telephone tax so i closed my Bank Accounts and i wrote a letter to the Telephone Company and the irs every month. And why did you do this . Because the telephone tax had been approved to fund a war. I was a woman, my boyfriend was a conscientious objector, i felt there there wasnt quite so much that a woman could do, but that provoked visits from the fbi. That tiny little thing from a nobody meant that my landlord was visited, i was visited and my father who was a republican had his taxes audio audited. Thats amazing. I really didnt take much. They were all
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