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	♪ Kumbaya my Lord ♪	0:05
	♪ Kumbaya ♪	0:09
	♪ Kumbaya my Lord ♪	0:13
	♪ Kumbaya ♪	0:18
	♪ Oh Lord Kumbaya ♪	0:22
-	Getting there.	0:29
-	Yeah.
-	Can we catch up for a minute?	0:30
-	Yes.	0:32
-	As you can hear, Ms. Baez just lead the group in Kumbaya.	0:35
	At this moment, things are quiet.	0:44
	I imagine that there will be more singing momentarily.	0:48
	Our microphones are set up at a discussion table	0:52
	where Ms. Harris, or Ms. Baez, or Mrs. Harris, rather,	0:55
	had her husband and two other people were in a discussion.	0:59
	As you can hear right now, they're planning	1:04
	on what they're going to do next.	1:05
	As I said before, Ms. Harris began singing.	1:07
	Apparently a confrontation is in the making	1:11
	by the board of trustees and the students here.	1:14
	It has become markedly more serious as of this afternoon,	1:18
	what was already a very serious effort has become	1:22
	more serious as it becomes possible in a more real sense	1:24
	that some of the students here may be putting	1:27
	themselves on the line not just bodily,	1:31
	but in terms with their standing with the university.	1:33
	This, however, is all speculation at this time	1:35
	because Chairman Tisdale has made no official statement.	1:39
-	Ask questions.	1:44
	First of all, answer the ones that we can see here.	1:46
-	As you can see, they're calling for questions.	1:47
	Ms. Baez and her husband.	1:51
	We're discussing the draft.	1:54
	Apparently this is something they're very concerned	1:57
	and as well as the issue as stake here of civil rights	1:59
	and racial justice.	2:02
-	Are there any people here that are in the light	2:04
	that we can see that have questions?	2:06
-	She's calling for questions from the monitor.	2:08
	She's calling for questions from the floor.	2:11
	I do not know how this questioning is going to go.	2:14
	We'll listen in.	2:18
-	(mumbles) Harris and, Ms. Harris.	2:20
	And these people coming here speaking to us all	2:23
	over existence, but that this is not our main focus	2:24
	and I have to say.	2:29
	(audience applauds)
-	As you can see, he has just informed them	2:33
	that this is not a peace vigil, but rather a vigil	2:35
	for racial justice.	2:37
	This is something that apparently there was	2:39
	some misunderstanding on the part of Ms. Baez	2:40
	and Mr. Harris.	2:42
	The people here are of course, here having to do	2:44
	with demands of the union and so forth.	2:48
	I think this is beginning to be cleared up on the quad.	2:50
	I imagine Ms. Baez was aware of this,	2:52
	but was also very interested in this other topic,	2:54
	that would be war and universal brotherhood.	2:58
-	I'm glad we've given them a chance to speak on the subject	3:03
	but it's an entirely different issue and just for the sake	3:05
	of (mumbles) we might be listening in.	3:09
	I want to remind you that this vigil is not	3:11
	a draft (mumbles) and many of the people here do feel	3:15
	and when they do, there are many people who feel	3:19
	differently in their lives, but both of us	3:23
	are on one side.	3:25
	But I just wanted to make sure that everybody here	3:26
	realizes the people's live (mumbles) movement	3:29
	and although	3:33
-	Do you want to respond
	to that?	3:35
-	Oh, let me just check
	on that because (mumbles).	3:37
	(laughter)	3:38
-	The main object here is for (mumbles).	3:39
-	I don't even think we should respond to that.	3:42
	I think we should just ignore it	3:44
	and move on.	3:45
-	Okay.
-	I mean (mumbles).	3:46
	(audience applauds)	3:47
-	As you can hear, our microphones are picking up	3:53
	a private conversation as well.	3:55
-	Actually, Mr. Sanber would like to respond to that.	3:56
	Okay, I'll respond to it.	4:01
-	We've been on a national speaking tour discussing	4:03
	the things that we said tonight,	4:05
	and when we came to Duke they said everybody	4:07
	who was anybody sitting out on the lawn,	4:08
	so why don't you go and say it there?	4:10
	So that's what we did.	4:12
	(audience applauds)	4:14
-	As you can see, I think the misunderstanding	4:16
	is at this moment beginning to be cleared up.	4:17
-	I suppose, to be as polite as I can,	4:23
	I would say I disagree with the young man.	4:26
	As a matter of fact, what you're about is resistance	4:29
	and you can't divide them, that's all.	4:32
	They're all connected and if you think	4:35
	universities divided from resistance is incorrect.	4:36
-	You're all right!	4:41
-	Even your hissing
	is part of your resistance, as a matter of fact.	4:44
	(audience applauds)	4:48
	You see, I think this is one of the things	4:53
	that's happened in our world, is we divide it up,	4:56
	that we have this specific issue, we have that	5:00
	specific issue.	5:02
	I think we have a whole issue of how to be human	5:03
	and how to relate, humanate other people	5:06
	and I think you're doing that tonight	5:09
	and I don't think it's disconnected from resistance.	5:11
	(audience applauds)	5:14
-	Okay, well we're going to take, at random,	5:22
	some of the questions that came up here.	5:24
	And (laughs) first question came up	5:27
	was what would you do if you get attacked?	5:29
-	Well!	5:31
	(laughter)
-	Relax.	5:39
	The thing about.	5:40
	(laughter)	5:43
	The thing about a hypothetical, well two things	5:44
	about this particular question.	5:46
	I gather the person means what do you do individually	5:48
	when somebody's poking a gun in your ribs	5:49
	or raping your mother or whatever the hypothetical	5:52
	situation is, and I say two things.	5:54
	One is to answer hypothetical.	5:57
	There's no hypothetical.	5:59
	There's no answer to hypothetical question	6:00
	except a hypothetical one and everybody leaves	6:02
	saying, yeah, but.	6:03
	So what I'll do is two things and I'll give you	6:05
	an example of an individual responding to an attack	6:07
	and then I'd like to say that this is not really	6:11
	what we're stressing so much as the fact	6:14
	that 83% of the American tax dollar	6:16
	goes to building weapons of destruction	6:21
	and things to kill people with and that I think	6:22
	that's a different kind of a violence from adrinalin	6:25
	on the streets kind of violence.	6:27
	And as long as we allow ourselves to go on supporting	6:29
	the kind of international murder that goes on,	6:33
	I think that incidental violence or whatever	6:36
	you want to call it will keep going.	6:38
	I think you're just about.	6:41
	I'd just like to give one example because sometimes	6:43
	it is helpful to know a real situation that took place	6:44
	and they do take place and pacifists live to tell about it	6:47
	and Ira Sandfrill, sitting on my right,	6:51
	was attacked by a man who had a gun	6:53
	and it's ideal for a pacifist because everybody	6:56
	is always saying, "What would you do if somebody	6:58
	"attacked you and stuck a gun in your ribs?"	7:00
	And so somebody did one night as Ira was stepping	7:01
	off a train.	7:04
	Ira was going to a Quaker meeting (laughs).	7:05
	Yeah.	7:06
	A man stepped up to him and stuck a gun	7:08
	in his side and said, "Give me all your money."	7:10
	And Ira said, "No, I'll give you half."	7:11
	(audience laughs)	7:14
	(audience applauds)	7:18
	You all realize it's a terrible thing.	7:20
-	If I might interrupt our programming at this time,	7:21
	I would like to announce that we here	7:24
	are not particularly clear in our minds whether	7:26
	it is necessary to continue covering	7:29
	the questioning and answering.	7:31
	However, I would like to leave this open if those of you	7:34
	who are listening now to WDBS would particularly	7:37
	like to hear the questioning go on,	7:39
	please call us at 3686 and we certainly are not	7:42
	adverse to keeping it on the air.	7:44
	However, it is my feeling here that it might be best	7:46
	to return you to our regularly programming,	7:49
	regular scheduled programming until something else	7:51
	new breaks here.	7:54
	However, if you're particularly interested	7:55
	in hearing this, please call us at 3686	7:56
	and in five minutes, I will be in communication	7:59
	with our station briefly to see what the situation	8:02
	is on that.	8:05
	For the present, I'll return you to the main quadrangle.	8:06
-	But I think what happens when you begin to think	8:08
	in the terms that everybody has something	8:10
	you can appeal to as a human being, then you stop	8:13
	thinking of him as a crook and that's your only	8:15
	possibility of getting out of the situation alive.	8:18
	Plus, for instance, in this case, it enhanced	8:21
	the whole situation beautifully.	8:24
	You want to say anything about that?	8:26
	Okay, another question.	8:28
-	Well (mumbles).	8:30
-	Does anybody with B and C have a question?	8:32
-	There's a question here.	8:35
-	Okay.
-	You want to use this?	8:37
-	No, I just want to ask what do we do	8:38
	about our parents who are not, you know (mumbles)?	8:40
	(laughter)	8:44
-	The question is, the young man in the back of us	8:46
	says what do we do about our parents who are not	8:49
	in favor of what we do?	8:51
	Well, I just want to answer this first	8:53
	and if the others would like to say something, they can,	8:55
	but I just find this extraordinary that all these tough	8:57
	young men and women and all these revolutionaries,	9:01
	that then it seems as though the first and last	9:02
	question always on their minds is well,	9:05
	what's mommy going to say if I sit on the lawn	9:07
	too late and catch cold or whatever it is I'm going to do,	9:09
	what's mommy going to say and what's daddy going to say?	9:12
	And I really think that, what I would say to you	9:14
	is to give your parents a little more faith	9:17
	and a little more trust than you ever have	9:19
	and you're liable to come through on top.	9:21
	Trust them enough to tell them the truth.	9:23
	Trust them enough that you don't keep trying	9:25
	to hide stuff from them and you don't keep trying	9:28
	to do it all under cover and keep lying to them.	9:29
	Say look ma, I think this is where it stands,	9:31
	I think this is where it's at.	9:33
	And then tell her.	9:35
	What I've seen of that is that the mamas and papas	9:37
	come through pretty well at the end.	9:39
	They say well my God, we gave birth to a real son.	9:41
	(laughter)	9:43
-	I would briefly like to say we've all had parents.	9:46
	(laughter)	9:48
-	Mr. Harris, how do you feel about removing yourself	10:04
	from the system for up to five years and the possible	10:06
	(mumbles) from being in the system	10:10
	and say, being out of jail and trying to convert people	10:12
	as you run out?	10:15
	And as to people in college immediately giving up	10:17
	their right to stay out of jail, let's say.	10:20
	What do you think of the possibilities of still working	10:23
	while you're in college and trying to enlighten people	10:27
	to this brotherhood?	10:30
-	Would be nice.	10:32
-	I think it's a good kind of America we've developed	10:36
	and we're right, which is the right to stay	10:38
	out of jail (laughs).	10:40
	(laughter)	10:42
-	But I try.	10:43
-	Do you want to?	10:44
-	Oh, what I'd say is that	10:45
	I don't think the real question is being in or out of jail.	10:47
	The really question is how it is	10:52
	that you and I can do work and how is it	10:54
	that we really can relate to people.	10:56
	How is it that we really can educate people?	10:58
	Well, I'd say is that the way people learn,	11:00
	as I understand it, really isn't from the phenomenon	11:03
	of rhetoric, or from the phenomenon of what words	11:06
	that you use, it's really how you say those words	11:09
	and what kind of life is backing those words up.	11:11
	So what I'd say, that anything you want to teach	11:13
	people, it seems to me first, you'd have to live	11:17
	and one of the reasons I sent my draft cards back,	11:19
	which, and certainly I did when I was Stamford	11:23
	body president, but I'd sent them back because I wanted	11:25
	to do real work and I wanted to say the truth	11:29
	about the draft, what I thought that truth was	11:31
	and I thought there was no honest way to say that truth	11:33
	and continue to cooperate with military conscription.	11:35
	So I think the really question is a question of how	11:38
	you're going to live and what kind of values	11:41
	you're going to live out, and I think the case is	11:43
	that for living out certain kinds of values,	11:45
	you may end up in jail, but I think it's much more	11:48
	important to live those out than to postpone them	11:49
	because you might go to jail because of them.	11:52
	I think to live those as fully as you can	11:54
	is the real task.	11:56
	And as far as the question of staying in school	11:58
	as a student and doing work, I'm familiar with the position	12:03
	of being a student.	12:08
	I was a student at Stamford University for four years	12:10
	and one of those as student body president	12:11
	and I'd say that generally,	12:12
	being a student left a fairly bad taste in my mouth,	12:15
	but I felt,	12:18
	that I really believed in education	12:21
	and that I really wanted to see people educated.	12:25
	And the conclusion I reached after my time	12:29
	in the university was that the university was something	12:31
	that absolutely contradicted the notion of human education	12:33
	because it seemed to me the notion of human education	12:36
	had to begin at a basic respect for human beings	12:38
	and I saw no university and traveled between a lot	12:41
	of them speaking that had that kind of respect	12:44
	and that if I wanted to do education,	12:46
	if I wanted to be educated myself, I'd go start	12:49
	an institution or start something that would begin	12:51
	to do that education.	12:53
	And I think it's important for any student to realize	12:55
	that education is a phenomenon that exists	12:57
	inside your mind and that's where its roots are.	13:00
	Its roots are not in any institution that you send	13:02
	yourself to and it's very possible to be an educated man	13:04
	and continue to educate yourself and educate others	13:07
	around you and be completely disconnected	13:10
	from one of these institutions and I think as soon	13:13
	as you adopt the idea that education is connected	13:15
	to this institution somehow.	13:17
-	As the discussion continues, I am going to pause	13:19
	momentarily to make contact with our station	13:21
	to find out what the situation is.	13:25
	I would ask that you wait approximately 10 seconds	13:28
	while we discuss our further coverage.	13:31
	Stand by, please, for 10 seconds.	13:34
-	This is WDBS in Durham.	13:36
	As a result of a recent phone poll, we have found	13:38
	that there are 10 people of the 11 people	13:41
	who called in.	13:43
	10 are in favor of continued coverage	13:45
	and one is against it.	13:46
	Therefore, we will continue coverage and return you	13:47
	to our west campus quad studios.	13:49
-	Thank you very much.	13:52
	As you've heard, we will continue our coverage	13:54
	of the broadcast.	13:58
-	Believe some people of some of their fears.	14:00
	And to give you an idea of what kind of power it is	14:01
	that all of you possess.	14:03
	And I think most of us begin by underestimating ourselves.	14:07
	You know, you say, well you're going to go to jail	14:09
	and I said oh, we're going to be destroyed.	14:12
	It's the first reaction.	14:13
	And I think that you possess a lot more power than that,	14:15
	and before that, I want to just give one guy's	14:17
	experience in jail to give you an idea	14:18
	of the kind of power that a person possesses.	14:20
	This was a guy in Atlanta, Georgia.	14:22
	The police came into his front room one day	14:24
	and said, "You're under arrest for refusing the draft."	14:26
	And he said, "Well, by virtue of the power of the state,	14:30
	"you take control of my body.	14:33
	"Take care of it."	14:34
	From that point on, laid down on the floor, refused to move,	14:36
	refused to talk, refused to eat,	14:38
	and so they picked him up and they carried	14:41
	him off to jail and they carried him from jail	14:43
	into the courtroom and laid him on the floor	14:44
	in the courtroom and the judge looked over the bench	14:46
	and looked at him and all the lawyers tried to get	14:50
	him to say something.	14:51
	"Come on, come on, talk here, defend yourself.	14:53
	"This is democracy, freedom."	14:54
	So he didn't and so they carried him off to prison	14:55
	and he was in prison.	14:59
	They mopped him up for six months or so and kind of	15:01
	force fed him and did all those things that you do	15:02
	and they came into his cell one day and they said,	15:05
	"Look, you're too much trouble.	15:07
	"We're going to send you home."	15:09
	And he looked up and he said, "Take the body back	15:10
	"where you found it."	15:12
	(audience laughs)	15:14
	(audience applauds)	15:17
	And made them pick him up and carry him back	15:21
	to his living room in Atlanta, Georgia	15:22
	and he got up and walked off.	15:23
	(audience laughs)	15:24
	I tell that story just so that people can begin	15:27
	to think of a phenomena like being sent to prison	15:29
	within some notion of human reality.	15:31
	And like, the one where we have in the kind of statement	15:33
	we have in resistance,	15:36
	when at Duke, do Duke, when in jail, do jail.	15:37
	And for all of you people that are concerned	15:41
	that are supposedly students, I'd just give you a quote	15:43
	from a guy named Dave Dellinger who was a guy	15:46
	that spent time in jail for non-cooperation with the draft	15:50
	and he had, at one time, been a Yale student	15:51
	and he said, "I went to Yale, then I went to jail.	15:54
	"And I learned a hell of a lot more in jail	15:56
	"than I ever learned at Yale."	15:58
	(laughter)	15:59
	And I think that's true and I think that the way	16:01
	you're going to learn is when you really begin your life	16:03
	and when you really begin living out	16:06
	what it is that you feel inside of yourselves	16:09
	and I think if what you feel is that notion	16:12
	of brotherhood, that living it out means	16:15
	that you're going to have to spend time in jail.	16:17
	And I think it's much more important for you	16:18
	to live that out than it is to worry about jail	16:20
	and I think that's what all of your concerns ought to be,	16:22
	is how you can live that out and penalties be damned	16:24
	because penalties don't mean anything	16:27
	when you begin to live that out.	16:30
	Penalties don't even stand up to the benefits	16:32
	and I think that's the real problem,	16:35
	is how you're going to live, not where you're	16:36
	going to end up because of your living.	16:38
	(audience applauds)	16:40
-	Can you ask (mumbles)?	16:44
-	No, let's read the whole thing.	16:45
-	Forgive me for interrupting this,	16:48
	but I get very few telegrams and as yet,	16:51
	we as a group have gotten very few and I think it was	16:56
	on the same general subject, and this just came in.	16:58
	Benjamin E. Mays is a longtime friend	17:02
	of Dr. Martin Luther King's.	17:05
	Martin Luther King revered him as a great teacher	17:07
	and Martin Luther King asked him if he were killed ever,	17:09
	if Dr. Mays would please do his eulogy.	17:14
	And so it will be tomorrow.	17:18
	Dr. Benjamin E. Mays is going to eulogize	17:20
	Martin Luther King in Atlanta.	17:23
	This telegram.	17:25
	Dr. John Strange, individual students.	17:26
	I have learned of your dedicated action	17:29
	in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	17:31
	As students like you are interested in racial justice	17:33
	and are determined to carry on the noble work	17:37
	that Dr. Martin Luther King did,	17:40
	he will not have died in vain.	17:42
	(audience applauds)	17:45
-	There was a girl over there who had a question.	18:22
-	Let's say (mumbles) and get a question in the audience	18:25
	before we do another one.	18:26
-	I think what Mr. Harris is talking about	18:28
	is what you people are doing here tonight.	18:30
	You're standing up while sitting down.	18:33
	Excuse my (mumbles).	18:34
	So what you're believing in	18:35
	and I think it's fantastic that it's happening at Duke.	18:37
	(laughter)	18:41
	So are there any questions in the audience?	18:43
	Over here.	18:46
-	I'd like to address.	18:49
-	Want to use it?	18:51
-	Want to use this (mumbles)?
-	Yeah, please.	18:52
	Mr. Harris, concerning your speech, how do you	18:53
	justify the assumption that 80% of the world's people	18:56
	are in misery because of the American	18:59
	military establishment?	19:02
	(audience applauds)	19:04
-	First I said that our military establishment	19:10
	exists as one of the reason and then what I'd say.	19:12
	(man mumbles)	19:15
	We spend more money on armaments every month	19:20
	for the war in Vietnam than is necessary to feed	19:23
	every starving person in the world today.	19:25
	(audience applauds)	19:28
	Second, I would say one of the reasons that people	19:34
	are miserable around the world is that they have	19:36
	no control over the resources that they work	19:39
	and that they have no control over how the roots	19:41
	of those resources are distributed.	19:44
	I think one other,	19:47
	the primary factors in the fact that they have	19:50
	no control is the American military	19:51
	because America basically follows an imperialistic	19:53
	foreign policy, which involved America's controlling	19:56
	of the governments of countries all around the world.	19:57
	The primary instrument in controlling those governments	20:01
	is the American military and the threat	20:02
	of the use of American military force.	20:05
	I think very clearly if one can direct	20:07
	the problem of wealth distribution to the problem	20:11
	of the people's misery, I think the American military	20:14
	is greatly involved in that.	20:16
	For example, let's say you get a country	20:17
	like Guatemala where 600 people in Guatemala	20:21
	control over 90% of the land.	20:24
	Now in Guatemala city, if you've ever been there,	20:27
	there are three buildings downtown.	20:31
	The first building is the seat of the Guatemalan government,	20:33
	the second office is of the United Fruit Company,	20:36
	which is an American company,	20:40
	and the third is the United States embassy.	20:41
	They're all linked, and I think that's typical	20:43
	of how the country like Guatemala is run.	20:46
	It's run under the threat of American military force,	20:48
	as I think most of what's called the free world	20:50
	is run and I think if you're trying.	20:52
	(audience member applauds)	20:54
	If you're going to try and understand how those people	20:55
	can bed on their lawn, I think the first conclusion	20:56
	that you reach is that the resources from their country	20:58
	and the resources of their work ought to go	21:01
	to benefiting those people.	21:04
	I think one of the primary reasons they do not	21:06
	go to benefiting those people is that American military	21:08
	force controls their governments and controls	21:10
	how decisions in those countries are made	21:12
	and I think if there's ever going to be an end	21:14
	to the misery of people in the world,	21:18
	it means a whole free alignment of the distribution	21:19
	of resources and that we in the United States	21:23
	have to face the fact	21:25
	that we have, in our hands, the resources	21:26
	of really curing the fact of starvation	21:29
	and misery amongst people.	21:31
	Now in the United States, when you made the decision	21:33
	that that end to starvation for the people	21:36
	around the world is much less important	21:39
	than building the American military because 83%	21:40
	of your tax dollar goes to filling that military.	21:42
	And I think it's that kind of decision	21:45
	and that kind of mentality that the American military	21:48
	represents that are very directly responsible	21:51
	for the misery of people around the world	21:53
	and I think that's a very clear situation	21:55
	for most anyone in the world today.	21:57
	(audience applauds)	21:59
-	The girl out there.	22:05
	The young lady.	22:06
-	Barbara.
	(woman mumbles)	22:08
-	You want to come up and ask him in this?	22:10
-	We only have time for one more question	22:11
	because Dean Clelan has to give a prayer or something.	22:13
-	Okay, go ahead.	22:17
-	(mumbles) restrictions to go to jail	22:18
	and which hospital and jail of another key professor.	22:20
-	As you can see, we are not able	22:24
	to pick up the questioning.	22:27
-	The question was, did I A, ever expect to go	22:28
	to jail and B, how do I feel about going to jail	22:31
	as opposed to means of evading the draft,	22:34
	like leaving the country?	22:37
	And first, yes, I expect to go to jail.	22:38
	I'm presently on trial and I expect probably	22:40
	that I'll never see this month outside of a jail	22:43
	for a while again and I expect realistically	22:46
	that I'll probably be sent some time in late fall.	22:49
	And secondly I'd say that I wouldn't leave	22:53
	the United States of America to escape cancer	22:56
	and I don't think you can leave it	22:57
	to escape the disease that I think America	22:59
	is presently in the grips of.	23:01
	And I think the militarism and the inhumanity	23:02
	that generally characterize Americans' relationship	23:06
	to the world and the relationship to the world	23:09
	and the relationship to itself are only going to be stopped	23:11
	by people standing to it	23:12
	right here, right now,	23:14
	and that I think it's important that all of us	23:16
	do that standing to it and I think	23:21
	if you're concerned with, in fact,	23:23
	altering what the nature of American society now is,	23:25
	you can't do that from Canada and you can't	23:28
	do that by running.	23:30
	If you want to work with the American people,	23:31
	that it seems to be that the first obligation	23:33
	you have is to share the conditions with those people,	23:35
	which means that you don't have the option of leaving.	23:37
	You have the option of staying and sharing with people	23:41
	and I think that that,	23:43
	I would grant anybody the integrity of his choice	23:46
	and if he goes to Canada, then that's fine by me.	23:48
	I'll support him as a human being, but I don't think	23:51
	it has any relationship to the political fact	23:53
	of what's happening in America today	23:55
	and I don't think America will ever be stopped by that.	23:57
	And my central concern is with stopping what's happening	23:59
	now in America.	24:01
-	Is that the end?	24:02
	(audience applauds)	24:04
	(woman mumbles)	24:07
-	Do you want to say something (mumbles)?	24:11
-	Who is doing what?	24:12
-	Because if you don't want to.	24:14
-	The Dean of the chapel	24:15
-	Let him (mumbles)
	his prayer.	24:16
-	Is going to pray
	and then could you (mumbles)?	24:18
	Okay.	24:19
-	The three panel members are going to remain	24:20
	until after Dean Clelan leads the group in his prayer	24:21
	or prayers, and then Ms. Baez will lead us	24:25
	in a song or two.	24:29
	So you introduce him.	24:31
-	I'd like to take this opportunity	24:33
	to introduce Dead Clelan.	24:35
	Dean Clelan is dean of the Duke Chapel.	24:37
-	Where is he?	24:39
	He needs his prayerbook.	24:40
-	Is he standing over there?	24:42
	(laughter)	24:43
-	I'm sorry, I delayed.	24:44
	I'm tired.	24:46
	James B. Duke Scolar, right?	24:47
	(laughter)	24:49
	I'm sorry.	24:50
	James B. Duke,	24:51
	James B. Duke, professor and he has signed our statement	24:53
	and we are very honored to have him with us.	24:56
	(audience applauds)	24:57
-	He's got me wrong on about three counts.	25:13
	I'm not a James B. Duke Scholar and I'm not bright enough	25:15
	to be a James B. Duke Scholar.	25:18
	I'm just a James B. Duke professor.	25:19
	(laughter)	25:21
	There's a great difference.	25:22
	Secondly, I signed the statement with one reservation	25:23
	and you ought to know that so that at least honesty	25:25
	comes along with a certain amount of love.	25:27
	And thirdly, I want to take you seriously.	25:30
	I am going to pray (laughs).	25:32
	And I remember at the Air Force Academy, the cadets	25:36
	couldn't decide whether to pray at the chapel	25:38
	or in the chapel, or for the chapel.	25:39
	(audience laughs)	25:42
	And I'm going to pray with you.	25:44
	Now I realize we are divided.	25:46
	Very definitely.	25:48
	Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, Agnostics.	25:49
	But you've asked me to pray and I think	25:53
	with integrity, I must.	25:55
	Therefore, let us pray.	25:57
	All things come home at eventide	26:00
	and we come home to thee, the father of our spirit,	26:04
	not because we are good, but because we are	26:10
	thy children, not because we are worthy,	26:15
	but because we are thy sons and daughters	26:20
	and home is the place where they must take us in.	26:23
	Let us offer unto God a prayer of confession.	26:30
	Forgive us our sins, oh God,	26:34
	the sins of our souls and the sins of our bodies.	26:36
	Forgive us our casual sins and our deliberate sins,	26:42
	the sins which we have done to please others,	26:48
	the sins which we have done to please ourselves.	26:52
	Forgive us then, oh Lord, forgive them	26:57
	because thou art a father and we are like children.	27:01
	Let us offer a prayer of intercession	27:07
	for the widow in the family	27:09
	of Martin Luther King Jr., martyr.	27:12
	Oh God, who see us (mumbles)	27:19
	where sense only comes	27:22
	because we lack imagination through tragedy	27:26
	and whose saints must die in every generation	27:32
	because we cannot learn from the past.	27:35
	We give thee thanks for yet another marker,	27:41
	but we commend unto thee a woman and four children	27:44
	who are left in a broken home.	27:50
	And grant that what we seek to do on this campus for others	27:54
	may be inspired as if we were doing it	27:58
	for that family in Atlanta.	28:02
	And lastly, let us offer a prayer of dedication,	28:08
	an old prayer, a prayer of St. Augustin	28:10
	from the 16th century.	28:13
	Oh God who hast warned us,	28:16
	that much will be required of those	28:18
	to whom much is given.	28:21
	Grant that we whose lot is cast	28:25
	in so pleasant a place may seek to extend	28:26
	to others what we so richly enjoy	28:30
	and as we have entered into the labors of other men,	28:33
	so to labor that in their term,	28:38
	others may enter into ours	28:41
	to thy glory and for our good health.	28:44
	Amen.	28:50
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	28:58
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	29:03
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	29:08
	♪ Someday ♪	29:12
	♪ Oh ♪	29:17
	♪ Deep in my heart ♪	29:18
	♪ I know that ♪	29:22
	♪ I do believe ♪	29:24
	♪ Oh ♪	29:27
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	29:29
	♪ Someday ♪	29:32
-	We walk hand in hand.	29:35
	♪ We walk hand in hand ♪	29:37
	♪ We walk ♪	29:41

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Title:

Vigil #10

Date:

April 8, 1968

Description:

Rally on the Main Quad, cont.; Questions and answers from the assembled Duke Vigil to and from: Mr. Ira Sanford Miss Joan Baez Mr. David Harris

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0:29:44

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Silent Vigil (1968) and Allen Building Takeover (1969) Audio Recordings

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