We ve got an attorney general who says the states are not obligated to enforce the Bill of Rights. This is an America that s been losing its identity for at least 20 years. And I chose that day not because I m especially convinced that Kennedy was a great man or would have been a great leader. I chose it because probably that s the point at which America turned away from the possibilities of redemption. The failure involves not how pure or impure America is.
Nobody is pure.
There was a period between November of 1963 and June of 1968 where I think America looked for redemption, or it looked for the means by which it could redeem itself. Then the wind really went out of the country s sails. I think what has happened is one kind of dream got displaced with another. The hard dream got displaced with the easier dream. The real insidious thing is that the current conviction seems to be that being an American should be easy.