Paul Potter
Paul Potter
SDS in Santa Barbara
Leni Wildflower, Honey Williams, Todd Gitlin, Dick Flacks, Paul Potter, Mickey Flacks, Al Haber, Santa Barbara December 1979.
Famous speech
In April 1965, Paul Potter, then the president of Students for a Democratic Society, addressed a Washington gathering of 25,000 young antiwar protestors, where he said the mission of the new radical movement confronting American power was to “name that system. We must name it,“he said, “describe it, analyze it, understand it and change it. For it is only when that system is changed and brought under control that there can be any hope for stopping the forces that create a war in Vietnam today or a murder in the South tomorrow or all the incalculable, innumerable (and) more subtle atrocities that are worked on people all over – all the time.”[1]