They threw everything at us in the sixties in an attempt to deny the validity of our reality. They called us Communists and hippies, outside agitators and troublemakers. They infiltrated us and investigated us. They floated false rumors and negative propaganda. They ran us down with horses and bludgeoned us with billy clubs and baseball bats. They jailed us, they beat us, they bombed us, and sprayed us with tear gas and fire hoses. They even assassinated a president, a candidate, and a King. President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. were three symbols of hope. They
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