“Five years ago, even the most audacious visionary would not have dared predict the slashing do-or-de desperation and the sizzling up-tempo beat which has exploded into our politics, into our daily conversation, and into our nightmares and dreams.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

"Rallying Round the Flag"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

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