00:16I did note the transformation of the Beatles when their song Revolution came out.
00:36When I hear the song Revolution, even now, it just chokes me up, because I remember how
00:43hard it was for both of us at the time.
00:46We were both ostracized by the world and by the fans too, that we were together, and also
00:53John was daring to speak out.
00:55You asked me for a contribution, well, you know, we all do the more we can, but if you
01:09want money for people with minds that hate, well, all I can tell you is, brother, you have
01:14to wait.
01:15When John Lennon argued that revolution was necessary, but that it should come about
01:22through peaceful means, I don't think that he contradicted what many activists felt during
01:30that period.
01:31It's a mistake, I think, to assume that revolutions must be violent.
01:37If I'm a revolutionary, or we are revolutionaries, we're revolutionary artists, not gunmen.
01:42I believe in the Black Panther original statement, the 10-point program, which is not violent,
01:48which says, to defend yourself against attack, I might consider that, but anything else I
01:56don't consider, so I'm still for peace, peaceful revolutionary.
02:00But I'm an artist first, and a politician second.
02:02He always believed we had to go about it in a way that Gandhi did, for instance.
02:06It was very effective, he felt, you know, and we could do it that way.
02:10Stay in bed.
02:12Or your hair.
02:13Bed piece.
02:15Hair piece.
02:16Hair piece.
02:16Hair piece, bed piece.
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