The man knew whereof he spoke.
The slaver exploiting mentality still rules in America.

When people have the instruments of authority to place themselves over another person and the tools of violence to enforce their will they do so. The US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, Cuba, the Dutch, etc. etc. etc. All of them. Davis even accepted the Lenin award from the USSR, a nation whose police state murdered more of its own people and sent more to the gulags than Hitler did in open warfare.

There are no beneficent governments -- anywhere -- ever.

Do you recognize the quote?

Reading up on some of his antics he seems to have been determined to personally prove the saying true.

There was a lot of that going around at the time. Craziness, deliberate craziness.
He wasn't otherwise that interesting of a guy, died a few years back if I remember right.
He comes to mind though, because these times are starting to look a lot more like those times.

People should govern themselves, not shoot and blow-up other people to impose their personal agenda on those people's lives.

The people shouting, "Death to the king!" the loudest tend to be the ones who only want the throne for themselves. I'm not into killing kings, I'm into smashing thrones. If a man wants to call himself king let him sit with us at the same table on the same uncomfortable folding metal chairs eating the same food; then we'll see how kingly he appears.

But no thrones.

in the '60s, and it's actually: "Violence is as American as apple pie".

I consider that in dispute, but have taken to using "cherry". Nevertheless, the meaning is clear and I doubt Mr. Brown would think the difference significant.

But, yep, that's him.

though not in American but by American private defense contractors in the form of exploiting migrant workers. There is a pay though not very much but the conditions are very poor and the labor is forced by several ways, starting with taking their passports as soon as they arrive.

Alejandrina Castillo swept back her long black hair and reached elbow-deep into the chile pepper plants. She palmed and plucked the fat serranos, dropping handful after tiny handful into a bucket.

The container filled rapidly. Alejandrina stopped well before the pepper pile reached the brim.

She was 12, and it was hard for her to lift a full 15-pound load.

One row over was her brother Fidel, 13, who couldn't keep up with her. He was daydreaming as usual. Their 10-year-old cousin, Jesus, was trying harder but falling behind too.

http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-children/