Bernie Sanders: 54 YEARS OF STANDING UP FOR PEOPLE

[Donkees]

[PotatoChip]

1. A person of true integrity. Bernie Sanders...

He saw through the bullshit. Even back then.

[Stevepol]

2. Man these guys doing Sanders' ads are good

at cutting and pasting and coming up with a jewel of an ad. This is really a good ad.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. Powerful! Puts me in mind of another song and another anonymous civil rights

participant, Gil Turner. In the late sixties I drove with him to a protest rally and the folks there that knew him asked him to sing "that anthem" he has just written. And he sang these words:


There’s a man by my side walking
There’s a voice within me talking,
There’s a voice, within me saying,
Carry on, carry it on.

They will tell their empty stories,
Send their dogs to bite our bodies,
They will lock us up in prison,
Carry on, carry it on.

When you can’t go on any longer,
Take the hand, hand of your brother,
Every victory brings another,Carry it on, carry it on.

Carry on, carry it on.

[Donkees]

4. Carry It On - Joan Baez

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Nice. My favorite was the one by Judy Collins, with the simple, haunting dulcimer

[Paka]

5. We shall overcome!

At 75 years of age I now look back on those turbulent times. Some of my most moving moments came during protests when we linked hands on both sides and sang that wonderful anthem. Thinking about it can still thrill me all these years later.