I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.
I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.
I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.