Anti-Communism, not even once.
any guesses on who this is? Hints below:
Hint #1:
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.'
Hint #2:
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According to President Ronald Reagan, I was denounced by former friends, because I never gave up my conviction that minorities in America could and would succeed based on their individual merit.
Hint #3:
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I supported sending jets and weapons to Israel to fight the Arab States, I worked with the CIA to rig elections in the Dominican Republic, I gave "critical support" to the US military intervention in Vietnam, I opposed arms control agreements with the Soviet Union, and I supported the deployment of the apartheid South African army to fight the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
Hint #4:
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I convinced Martin Luther King Jr. to abandon the use of armed protection for himself and his family, and took credit for teaching him about the principles of nonviolence.
Hint #5:
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President Barack Obama posthumously awarded me the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
Answer:
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I'm Bayard Rustin , an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, gay rights... and neoconservativism.
One of the founders of the Red Army Faction later became a Neo Nazi in prison