Lawrence O'Donnell
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225 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Dec
Lawrence O'Donnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He won from the grave.
And that choice is there for everybody all the time.
And there's another thing that comes to mind, Joey, and I'll shut up, and that is Walker Lippman, when he went to his
30th class Harvard class anniversary, which I know is a distant thing for you.
Your Harvard class, your 30th reunion isn't coming for a long time.
But Lippmann said to his Harvard class in 1940, before the United States is into World War II, but World War II is underway.
that they now had no choice.
There was no choice.
They couldn't take anything for granted.
They had to join this fight against fascism.
They had to join it because there was no way you could sit back and choose to do nothing.
He didn't tell them what to do.
He didn't say, you know, you should join the army or anything.
He just said, you know, you absolutely must now be committed with every bit of strength you have.
Again, against something that seemed hopeless.
I mean, Germany was just raging across Europe then.
It looks like there was going to be a winner and it was going to be Hitler.
And so these dark hours have demanded things of people that they have risen to in the past.
And there's no reason why people can't find their own spot.
You know, Michael Schwerner didn't join a political campaign.
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