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"Radical Extremist"

Mr. Dellums, who has been
labeled "a radical extremist"
by Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew, addressed the problems
of war, racism, corporate
despotism, health legislation,
drugs, economy, education,
environment and the unjust
penal system

"The Vietnam war is illegal.
immoral and insane," Mr.
Dellums lamented "We kill
and destroy human life in
Southeast Asia, yet rarely do
we pin medals on the chests of
those who work for the desire
to live."

"We have made Vietnam a
very glorious war, yet if
democracy is real," he asserted.
"we ought to invest in it and
tell the people the horrible human
injustice committed there."

"I didn't come to Congress
to sit around for 40 years to
become a fat, senile old man. I
don't agree with the
philosophy that when you
enter Congress, you
immediately start working for
reelection. I don't play that
game."