Essay: Pensees of a Lifelong Provacateur

éIDEOLOGY: "When you have one, you suffer from the delusion that you know all the answers. I certainly don't." TODAY'S YOUTH CULT: "It has been said that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Today 'youth' has become the refuge of the ignorant and confused."

PATRIOTISM: "I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S. You can't renounce something unless you have something else."

CIVIL RIGHTS: "Civil rights is a movement, and a movement without organization is nothing more than a bowel...

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