Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
60 Minutes interview (2005)
“That will happen... when all of us who are slightly privileged and slightly uneasy begin to see that we are like the guards in the prison uprising at Attica - expendable; that the Establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain its control, kill us.”
A People's History of the United States (1980), Chapter 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards
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