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There is a large number whose vision of their future does not match the view from the oval office.

There is a sizeable body of opinion in America which refuses to surrender yesterday's goals to the occupants of power and the princes of privelege.

But these -- our countrymen and women, young and old, of all races, creeds, and colors -- mistakenly believe themselves to be impotent. Unable to influence the society in which they live.

Twenty years ago, black young people in the south sat down in order to stand up for their rights.

The marched and picketed and protested against state-sanctioned segregation, and brought that system crashing to its knees.

In later years, another generation said "no" to aggressive, colonial war waged by their country, and put their bodies in the path of the war machhine.

Today's times require no less, and, in fact, insist on more.

There is a large space created by the lack of any effective political opposition to the selfishness that surrounds us -- that space can be filled and the foreful opposition moblizied, but it will take hard work.

New voters must be registered and organized and educated and energized.

This year's congressional contest should become 435 Referenda or Reganomics. Surveys on the continuation of an aggressive, foreign policy.

Here will come a first national opportunity to purge the congress of th moral majoritorians.