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Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 and november. If we voted in president ial elections at the same level, i mean in local elections at the same level that we vote in president ial elections a lot of this stuff that you are fearful of right now will dissipate, go away. Guest we have to do what we can wear began as a professor. I ran the center for the state of democracy and we are organizing a national dialogue. ....
That is the root and seed bed for black political activism in the United States. He realized if you are going to say you want equal rights and Racial Justice and whether people believe it because of a philosophical reasons or god has led us to this movement he was fine. During freedom summer he is organizing in mississippi and he is with young white organizers who volunteered to come into the deep south. And he said i know some are marxist and some are others but he said if they thing this is a result of god then thank you god. Host do you view this as a Christian Movement . Guest it was a religious movement not christian. There were as many jews involved in the rights as christians. There were other religions. I studied all of the great religions. The first a i got in college was in comparative religion. My father wa ....
[applause] we are very honor today to have Doris Kearns Goodwin is our special guest. Before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Okay, all right. How many people have read two books . Three books . For . Five . Six . All of them. Okay. How many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed . Okay. So Doris Kearns Goodwin is obviously a leading president ial scholars. She is a person who has written books on some of the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft and a bit about the muckrak ....
Back to wanting to talk about israel. And madiba in a very stern voice, he had used their , your enemies are not our enemies. And he said, im going to read a paragraph. Then i will be done. I think it is him at his best. He goes, apparently you have not listened to my argument. If you had done so you have not been serious and examining. Tried to picture ted koppel. I replied to one of our friends here that i refuse to be drawn into the differences that have existed between the various communities in the united states. You have not commented that i am going to offend anybody by refusing to inform myself and the internal affairs of the usa. Why are you so keen that i should inform myself i dont think he meant to inform, but in the internal affairs of cuba and libya . I expect you to be consistent. Now, think about television, all right. Ten seconds of silence. One of the Amazing Things about this was, television came to south africa ....
Still thinks he is a bit of and not, but at the same time says that he is growing as mandela grew. As i said, at the end of the conversation i was shocked because she said that he is really causing a big stir in parliament, and her expectation is that he may eventually take over this predominately white party, which is the only serious Opposition Party to the African National congress to it if he might take to the democratic space fact, the democratic alliance. Ibook just at what i was trying to a moment ago. We are dealing with a story that is not just complex but filled with contradictions. There is no one thing that is necessarily true. In my own book i see mandela as having many faces, played many roles, including the role of Nelson Mandela, which he invented. This man was in place. He played creon in antigone, a ....