WAFR Recording of Ronald Dellums at Duke University, Private Campaign Contributions, 1972-1973

WAFR Recording of Ronald Dellums at Duke University, Private Campaign Contributions, 1972-1973

This is a recording from WAFR—a Black-owned community radio station in Durham, NC—of Ronald Dellums speaking at Duke University around 1972 to 1973. This clip is about the danger that results from private campaign contributions

WAFR (Durham, NC); Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-2018

From WAFR: Ronald Dellums, Duke University, Audiotape T-70092/54 in the Media and the Movement Project Collection of Black-Owned Radio Station Broadcasts #70092, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1972-1973

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English

Sound

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“Another thing that we must learn from Watergate is the danger of the results and abuses of private contributions to campaigns. I will state my thought very succinctly. Private contributions to political campaigns is antithetical to the democratic process, and people who believe that one can equate a $10 contribution to a $10,000 contribution is operating at the height of contradiction. It is an insult to American people to believe that a human being with a trembling hand can write a $10 check to support someone they believe in, and someone over a corporate desk can write a $10,000, $100,000, $500,000 check, and you assume that $10 person will still get the same response from the politics. Hell no.”

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