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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "they should only wait till they get themselves a huge organization. That was a good question, tho." (Additional comments or questions from audience, indistinct.) "Uh, no, no, I don't think so in that situation, no. I don't think that's what happened. It's all theory, I mean o o ip 6 hh ct =a e a] 4 i" fb ip B 7] ia m td He] wr o x ug D (J +] t] E io 1 _ Pa) ° Lr] tt jae 6 oo ~~ - ~~ ® et my ™ ct About five years ago I was a pacifist. I worked a year and a half in Mississippi, Americus, Georgia, I believed in pacifism as a tactic and as away of life. Maybe not so much as a way of life 'cause I was like kind of a hood, you know, going through high school. Shit like that. I mean, I didn't quite understand it but I went along with it. And it seemed decent and moral and right. And my colored people, an audience like this, they say well what are you gonna do if Hitler rapes your mother? That was the big question, you know, that you always ask pacifists. So finally, after giving a lot of bullshit answers for about two “| or three years I said well, uh, shoot the fucker. And the people ‘| 1 i weren't happy with that answer, see? ‘Cause the same people were asking the same question. And that's what was meant by that question. What he was asking was, are there political figures today or yesterday in this country who can effect the kind of VF and revolution and the kind of revolutionary society we want to see ang 66