:''... the next key point was [[Fidel Castro|Castro]] taking over [[Cuba]]. The apolitical quality of Beat thought changed with that. It sparked quite a discussion and quite a dialogue; many people had been basic pacifists with considerable disillusion with Marxian revolutionary rhetoric. At the time of Castro's victory, it had to be rethought again. Here was a revolution that had used violence and that was apparently a good thing. Many people abandoned the pacifist position at that time or at least began to give more thought to it. In any case, many people began to look to politics again as having possibilities. From that follows, at least on some levels, the beginning of civil rights activism, which leads through our one whole chain of events: the Movement. '' ("…næste vigtige punkt var Castros overtagelse af Cuba. Det apolitiskle aspekt ved beatgenerationens tankegang ændredes med dette. Det affødte masser af diskussion; mange havde grundlæggende været pacifister og disllusionerede med den [[marxisme|marxistiske]] retorik. Da Castro sejrede, genovervejede man. Her var en revolution, der havde brugt vold, og det var tilsyneladende en god ting. Mange ændrede deres pacifistiske holdning eller i det mindste begyndte at tænke over den. Hvor om alting er, så begyndte folk igen at se mulighederne inden for politik. Det førte til en vis grad til begyndelsen på [[borgerrettighedsbevægelsen]].")
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