have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights,” he said, “an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.” For the past twelve years, “we have been in a reform movement.… But after Selma and the voting rights bill we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution. I think we must see the great distinction here between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement,” and how the former had been directed at making America live up to its professed values. “I’m convinced,” he told his colleagues, “that a lot of the people
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