03-17-2022, 06:52 PM
"my voice must be heard" dates from the time of this movie quote. Since the protesters were unable to convince LBJ to get out of Vietnam, no matter how loudly they shouted, and oppressed African Americans and others got impatient with continued discrimination and wealth gaps, people have felt unable to be heard. And then the reactionaries got into the fray too, believing themselves the forgotten Americans too, and their voice was raised by demagogues from Richard Nixon and George Wallace to Donald Trump.