“If a man is 36 years old, as I happen to be,” he said, “and some great truth stands before the door of his life…and he refuses to stand up because he wants to live a little longer and he’s afraid that his home will get bombed or he’s afraid that he will lose his job, he’s afraid that he will get shot or beaten down by State Troopers, he may go on and live until he’s 80, but he’s just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. And the state of breathing in his life is merely the announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.”
