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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Throughout human history, we've always had people who were unfree, in order for some to...

Throughout human history, we've always had people who were unfree, in order for some to have the liberty to think and to act and to engage in politics

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Throughout human history,
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we've always had people who were unfree,
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in order for some to have the liberty
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to think and to act and to engage in politics.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
02:35:56
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
Throughout time this has been the case. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Throughout time this has been the case.
Why all of a sudden - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
Why all of a sudden
This is the lie that modern society has. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
This is the lie that modern society has.
It's not that there's this class conflict, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
It's not that there's this class conflict,
The problem is that what you want isn't possible. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
The problem is that what you want isn't possible.
The idea of a free society is a failure. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
The idea of a free society is a failure.
He writes this book called Slaves Without Masters, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
He writes this book called Slaves Without Masters,
Slaves Without Masters is the idea - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Slaves Without Masters is the idea
He says, "Look what happens when slaves have no masters. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
He says, "Look what happens when slaves have no...
"We in Southern society have figured out the remedy - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
"We in Southern society have figured out the remedy
John C. Calhoun, also a Southern ideologue, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
John C. Calhoun, also a Southern ideologue,
The problem of capital and labor in America - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
The problem of capital and labor in America
Richard Hofstadter, one of the famous American historians, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
Richard Hofstadter, one of the famous American historians,
He puts "Fitzhugh, the marks of the planter class." - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
He puts "Fitzhugh, the marks of the planter...
You have a critique of this supposedly free society, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
You have a critique of this supposedly free society,
One, that as Marx says, "The working people knew," - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
One, that as Marx says, "The working people knew,"
This is in the address that Marx writes to Lincoln. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
This is in the address that Marx writes to Lincoln.
On behalf of the International Workingmen's Association, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
On behalf of the International Workingmen's...
And he says, "The workingmen knew, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:38
And he says, "The workingmen knew,
Because the workers' revolution, insofar as Marx was concerned, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
Because the workers' revolution, insofar as Marx was...