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RBF Definitions

"So I'm saying to you that it's now perfectly clear that

not only is there no race, there is no class. Here we are.

One of the most extraordinary moments of our life to realize

that we are really one. This is very important for us to

realize because our young world in its compassion for the

underdog, for the ill-treated, its feeling then for the poor

is such that it wants to cast its lot with the poor. And

there has been a tendency of the young them to take on

standards that are really lower and less imaginative than

other standards in order to get into this working class

world, which they have a great compassion for. I'm simply

saying to you now that it's a matter of our elevating all

... all of humanity. We have then, instead of pulling the

top down, vindictively, it's a matter of pulling the

bottom outwardly. And here we are the new integrating

world. Here are our challenges: a complete reversal of all

the seemingly obvious of yesterday. Here are the fundamental

conditions that we are brothers, and that we are metting

here . . . with this drive of mm youth to find about how we

can really use our minds. And not just use our minds to

give ourselves special advantages, or some sensation, but so

we can really be of great fundamental use to our fellow man."

Citations

  1. RBF address at SIMS, U.Mass., Amherst, 22 Jul'71

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