¶ Young World
RBF Definitions
"So I’m saying to you that it’s now perfectly clear that
not only is there no race, there is no class. Here we are.
One of the most extraordinary moments of our life to realize
that we are really one. This is very important for us to
realize because our young world in its compassion for the
underdog, for the ill-treated, its feeling then for the poor
is such that it wants to cast its lot with the poor. And
there has been a tendency of the young them to take on
standards that are really lower and less imaginative than
other standards in order to get into this working class
world, which they have a great compassion for. I’m simply
saying to you now that it’s a matter of our elevating all
… all of humanity. We have then, instead of pulling the
top down, vindictively, it’s a matter of pulling the
bottom outwardly. And here we are the new integrating
world. Here are our challenges: a complete reversal of all
the seemingly obvious of yesterday. Here are the fundamental
conditions that we are brothers, and that we are metting
here . . . with this drive of mm youth to find about how we
can really use our minds. And not just use our minds to
give ourselves special advantages, or some sensation, but so
we can really be of great fundamental use to our fellow man."
¶ Citations
- RBF address at SIMS, U.Mass., Amherst, 22 Jul’71
