Larry Kramer
speaker
54 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Larry Kramer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not the news, it's not work or whatever else is weighing you down.
It's just a good time with good friends and great tunes.
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The real invader is integration.
You've got Martin Luther King.
You have demonstrations.
You have sit-ins.
When Lyndon Johnson takes the presidency, he tells the country that the legacy of John Kennedy is civil rights, and to cement it, we need the Civil Rights Act.
So it's a tremendous validation by Congress of what the court had been doing.
You have each of the branches of government doing what it can do to further the national interest.
And then that turns out to be one person, one vote?
So we said the beavers can do it probably a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably.
There was just no notion that it would be powerful.
It wasn't yet in really anybody's imagination that they had to worry about.
It's the most divisive period in American history, except for the Civil War and possibly today.
It's a period of a lot of turmoil.
And there's essentially one huge division, you know, around which the political parties form.
Almost all of the debates are around, what is it that we mean by, you know, they would have said Republicanism, we would say democracy.
That is to say, how popular is it supposed to be?
Final interpretation rests with us in the community.
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