Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Stokely Carmichael was one of the most brilliant nonviolent organizers in the movement.

What happened to him?

John Lewis wasn't just simply this man who risked everything on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

He was the chairperson of SNCC from 1963 to 1966.

But these movements are continuous.

They're linked.

The rage, the anger.

If you weren't angry, what the hell was wrong with you?

So I think, for me, he gives me license to be rageful.

And then he says, if you're not rageful, then what is wrong?

What is wrong?

We have to go through this brook of fire to get to the other side.

There's no going around it.

You know, I, I don't know, um, to be honest with you, it, it, there is a sense in which, you know, Baldwin is, is the poet in, in the Emersonian sense.

Um,

Baldwin never gave up on the fundamental sacrality of human being.

We're all sacred.

And then that line where he says, you know, I want us to do something unprecedented, and that is to create a self without the need for enemies.

Oh, my Lord.

Every time, I mean, that's just, I just love that line.