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An island
is one great eye, gazing out,

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a beckoning lighthouse,
searchlight,

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a wishbone compass,
or counterweight to the stars.

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When it comes to outlook
and point of view,

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a figure stands
on a rocky ledge peering out

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towards an archipelago of glass
on the mainland,

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a seagull's wings
touching the tip of a high wave,

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out to where
the brain may stumble.

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Once you can speak,
you can learn to sing.

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- Oh, I began teaching
in... er... 1971.

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I returned to Vienna
and then I built up a choir.

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But I had a 40-voice choir.

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And this choir
was so professional.

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They sang in about
seven languages.

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Because I taught them
to sing in German, in Italian,

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in French and even Russian.

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So, the first thing
I asked them to do,

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I said, "Sing anything."

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And then when I hear
where the voice is

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I know whether it's a low voice,
or a middle voice,

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or a high voice; I can tell.

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The power, actually,
you can use in the right way.

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Because you don't always
have to sing very loud...

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you can control
the singing, sing softly

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but yet that could
reach out beyond. You know.

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- Uh, I met Ed
when I was 15.

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And we just...
we travelled around.

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There was no work
in this country.

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People were absolutely
starving to death.

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And then a friend of mine
gave me a copy

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of Grapes of Wrath.

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And I read it and thought it was
the most beautiful thing.

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It was like my life story.

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It was like being blind
and all at once you can see,

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because it just showed me a...

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a whole new side
of myself and my family.

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I had never seen us as a people.

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Poor people are very fragmented.

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They don't tend
to identify with each other.

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It was like somebody
was writing about me

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and about my grandmother,
Molly Bell.

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I know when I first became aware
of my own racism

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was when the bus boycott
was in Montgomery Alabama,

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I was living there at the time

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and I saw Reverend King
knocked down and beaten

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and I saw grown men
pick black women up

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and throw them into the buses
to try to force them to ride.

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I saw things
that I had never seen before.

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Um, I like to think
that I was human enough

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that when I saw some of the...

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violence that goes along
with racism...

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that I... understood...

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what it had done to me
and my people, southern whites.

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And what do you think
it was about you

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that made you change
and hasn't made

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other members of your own family
change in the same way?

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I don't know.
I truly don't.

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I wish I knew.

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Is it possible
to have love without justice?

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Is it possible that we think
too much in terms of charity,

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in terms of
Thanksgiving Day baskets,

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in terms of Christmas baskets

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and not in terms enough

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of eliminating poverty?

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Well, most of
the young patriots,

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they were part of a migration
from the South

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that went to the North,
looking for a job.

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Uh, there were probably,
any given time,

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40,000 to 80,000 people
from the South from this
one community called Uptown.

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Uh, and that's where
the people went because

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of the... uh... you know,
the rent, it was pretty much,

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a slum neighbourhood.

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Uh... And I went there
when I was about 17 years old,

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just turned 17,
I'm from Tennessee.

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And went there
looking for a job...

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and my elder brother,
he was already there.

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But he had already been
involved with a street gang,

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called Peacemakers.

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And through the Peacemakers

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they got involved with a group

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from Students for
a Democratic Society,
called JOIN.

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Jobs Or Income Now.

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We had gotten recognised
for some of the things

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that we had done.

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- And, uh...

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And so we were approached
by the Peace and Freedom Party

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out there from California,

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they were looking to run
somebody for President
of the United States.

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Uh... so they wanted
to choose a black person

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and a white person.

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And they chose Eldridge Cleaver
to be running for President

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and they asked Peggy Terry,
who was a poor welfare mother

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part of the Young Patriots too.

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We were recognised
by the Black Panthers

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and we started
forming a coalition with them.

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And eventually set up some
free health clinics

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and breakfast for children
programme, legal services,

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and followed their model,
police patrol units, all that.

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And that's what
really pissed Mayor Daley off.

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And so he came out
with the war on gangs,

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criminalised us and
he brought in J Edgar
Hoover and COINTELPRO.

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Freedom is something
to be cherished.

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I mean like, we are free
to a certain extent,

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we can have functions like this,
and we can enjoy it.

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People have come out to
show solidarity and bands
have gone up there to play

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and show how much they care,
you know.

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South Africa, they couldn't have
a thing like this happening.

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The Anti Apartheid
Movement really took off
in the mid 1980s

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and it was because
of two things, really.

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Um... the first was because
of the Conservative
government here,

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led by Margaret Thatcher,

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who was a hugely
oppositional leader

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although she won
three elections in a row,

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but the international dimension
of that

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was largely people
joining in and saying

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we want to do something
about apartheid.

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Linking up with anti-racist
struggles here to do that.

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And then the other thing
was that the movement
inside South Africa

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became really,
really big in the '80s.

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And then there was a kind
of eruption in, like, music

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and you know T-shirts and badges

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and just kind of symbols
here of what you could do.

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You know, it was very easy, kind
of, to go and boycott oranges

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or to wear your
Boycott South Africa,

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Boycott Apartheid T-shirt
and your badge.

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And that really took off and
music was a big part of that.

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Erm... I'm here and
the band are here

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because we believe that
what today represented
was worthwhile.

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So, I mean,
that doesn't affect me,

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if it becomes a trend,
then that's not a bad thing.

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This one, true it do
so much for me in the charts...

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I personally I do it
for Africa. South Africa.

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It's a long story
but I started off

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with an organisation
called Black Action

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to Liberate South Africa, BALSA,

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which used to meet in Lambeth
Town Hall in the mid '80s.

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And then I decided
I wanted something that felt

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a bit more like
it was heading towards

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the kind of pressure
and structures that were needed,

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so I then joined
the Anti-Apartheid
Movement, nationally.

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And they'd put you in touch
with your local groups,
because by that time

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there were local groups
all over the country.

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So I got put in touch
with Southwark local
group, where I lived.

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I was very much
a grassroots activist,

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worker bee person
at Clapham Common.

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So, what I remember
is I wasn't on the big march

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because I had to go to the
Common to help set things up

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and we had a tent
with exhibitions

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because we wanted to use
the occasion to show people

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what apartheid was like and we
had this exhibition in a tent.

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And then what I remember most
is trying to collect some money

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because it was
a very expensive event.

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People now assume that
Anti-Apartheid Movement was easy

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but it wasn't. It took decades
to get to the point

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where voices were
heard of any sort

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and there were some quite good,
powerful people involved.

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So, I am really now a believer
in collective voice

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as a mechanism to effect change.

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Free Nelson Mandela!
Free Nelson Mandela!

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Free Nelson Mandela!

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To lie down
in remembrance,

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is to know each of us
is a prodigal son or daughter,

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looking out beyond land and sky,

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the chemical and metaphysical

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beyond falling
and turning waterwheels

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in the colossal brain
of damnable gods,

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a Eureka held up
to the sun's blinding eye,

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born to gaze into fire.

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Light edged along
salt-crusted stones,

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across a cataract of blue water,

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and lost sailor's parrots
spoke of sirens,

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the last words of
men buried at sea.

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The - the - the - the - stories

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Stories - of - of - our lives.

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The stories -
stories - of our lives...

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Of our lives...

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After
conquering frontiers,

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the mind comes back to
rest, stretching out
over the white sand.

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Subtitled by Elaine Lillian
Joseph and Adriana Hoyos