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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Dylan, Morrison and Huerta. « Fred Klonsky

Dylan, Morrison and Huerta. « Fred Klonsky:

Dylan, Morrison and Huerta.













Last week President Obama honored three people I admire greatly with the Medal of Freedom Award: Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. Poet, songwriter and singer Bob Dylan. And co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farmworkers Union, Dolores Huerta.
“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower