No school like the old school #4

" Abolissez l’exploitation de l’homme par l’homme, et vous abolirez l’exploitation d’une nation par une autre. Du jour où tombe l’antagonismes des classes à l’intérieur de la nation, tombe également l’hostilité des nations entre elles."

Karl Marx, Manifeste du Parti communiste (1848)

"So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on te same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such a cruel manipulation of the poor. "

Martin Luther King, A time to break silence. Speech delivered at the Riverside Church in New York City. 04/04/1967

"Vietnam Vietnam, everybody cryin' about Vietnam
Vietnam Vietnam, everybody cryin' about Vietnam
The law all the day killing me down in Mississippi, nobody seems to give a damn

Oh God if you can hear my prayer now, please help my brothers over in Vietnam
Oh God if you can hear my prayer now, please help my brothers over in Vietnam
The poor boys fightin', killin' and hidin' all in holes,
Maybe killin' their own brother, they do not know"

JB Lenoir, "Vietnam Blues"