01 August 2012

Chris Hedges Commencement Address at Rockford College 2003


“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate."

This is the speech that led to his departure from the NY Times.