People talk compassion and they talk about the housing and the jobs and the other immediate issues, but if you're standing back and allowing a holocaust to take place against a whole people, that kind of indifference can lead to utter disaster. And I believe it represents a hardening of heart and conscience that's intolerable.
I never want to be counted on the sidelines, letting things progress the way people did when slavery and Jim Crowe and segregation and the trampling of women's rights and the disregard of children's plight, and so forth, was going on in America. I want to be in the thick of the battle, doing what conscience requires, no matter what the risk. And that's what keeps me going.
Amen brother Keyes!
I watched the debate for about 20 minutes. The moderator would freeze every time he spoke to Keyes, his body instinctively going away from Keyes towards Baraka. He was trying to cut Keyes all the time, arguing Democratic points as much as Baraka. Why is it that it is always democrats that moderate debates?