This film is not about day-to-day slaughter of soldiers. It’s about the continuing and growing and forgotten suffering of the Vietnamese people in what is still, almost incredibly, America’s war.
Many thousands have been caught in the system which has become almost as chaotic and repressive as in countries without even the pretence of our Bill of Rights
The thalidomide affair is not over. Last year, after 11 years of struggle, the children won their compensation. But there are still 98 children whose mothers believe they took thalidomide who’ve got nothing.
Ten years ago, many Americans saw George Wallace as the caricature of a segregationist Southerner. Today, it’s fashionable, almost liberal chic, to say George was misunderstood, that he’s really a populist, a man of the ordinary people, white and black.
Tyneside doesn’t have ghettoes like Brixton and Bradford, but what is typical about [the Gill family] is their journey through a racial minefield that is our society and through all our racist fantasies, like the one that accuses immigrants of living off the dole and taking all the jobs.
I and other reporters have helped to immunise people against Bangladesh by reporting their horrors year after year. But I do ask you to watch this film, because I believe that possibly the greatest famine in recorded history has now begun here, with tens of thousands of people already dead and dying and suffering.
Perhaps you think these children should never have been allowed to live. I believe you’re wrong. The question, surely, is, how sane is a society that shuts away children who can be part of the life of the community?
For the first time since the beginning of the atomic age almost 30 years ago, the United States formally and quietly abandoned its policy of Ultimate Nuclear Deterrent… [and] is now prepared not merely to deter its enemies by the threat of annihilation, but to actually wage a flexible, acceptable nuclear war.
Tonight, more than two million parents will go to bed hungry in order to give their children something to eat… for the first time since the Great Depression, Britain – the so-called Welfare State – is deliberately cutting back the means of survival of its poorest, and their children.
Every day, out of the sky, came hundreds of Vietnamese. Twenty-four thousand of them on the edge of town, waiting for people to come and sponsor them. But every one was a reminder that the boys in the graveyard there died for nothing.
A law made before the Middle Ages and never sanctioned by Parliament has been dug up quite recently to be used virtually unchanged as a tool of suppression. Let‘s be quite clear – this law can affect us all. To be charged with conspiracy, you need not have committed any crime or have even been associated with a crime.
For agreeing to détente, Russia got American food. For signing a Middle East peace agreement, Egypt got American food. For prolonging the war in Vietnam, the generals of Saigon got American food, which they sold to buy arms.
What happened to Lake Winnemucca is about to happen to one of the world’s last great and beautiful inland seas… It’s a story that not only tells again the plight of the American Indian… The story of Pyramid Lake is much more universal than that, for it tells very simply what we all achieve when we knowingly and culpably destroy the partnership between man and nature.
Nixon had never really understood the image game, but he learned quickly from Kennedy. Eight years later, he sold himself like soap powder and he won with a margin of only a few per cent.
The people I interview in this film know they are taking great risks just by talking to me, but they insist on speaking out. Such is their courage and their commitment to freedom in Czechoslovakia.
While the beehive of administrators and deputy administrators and assistant administrators and their public relations protectors has doubled in the last twelve years, it is the doctors and nurses and their vital support people that are being cut back.
Those who want the British government to build the nation’s first commercial-scale nuclear power station fuelled by plutonium want you and your children to take part in an experiment… they want you to take a risk.