Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps we should expect the development of appropriate instruments of coercion: nonviolent class boycotts, tuition strikes, the boycotting of ceremonies. Maybe they will discover techniques that beat violence from their point of view, and from ours...
...yield to coercion would in the long run destroy the spirit of the Resolution. In the face of personal harassment or the strong likelihood of serious violations, however, a prudent man may chose to avoid confrontation without forfeiting his opportunities for redress. While it may be generally preferable to put the issue to the test so that there can be a resolution of the ambiguities involved, one cannot insist upon this as a threshold for disciplinary action if a case can be made on its merits that a violation has occurred...
Population pressures increase the likelihood of widespread government drives, or even coercion, to limit births. Couples who are warned by genetic counseling that they risk producing deformed offspring would face far greater pressure than they do now to avoid having children; those with defective genes could become, in effect, second-class citizens, a caste of genetic lepers...
...responsibility, the statement continued, "to take independent action against persons who act to abridge [SJP's] right of free speech through coercion...
Actions contrary to this principle deny both speakers and their listeners the rights of free speech and assembly; they suppress dissent; and they create an atmosphere of coercion and intimidation hostile to the exchange of views. Such an atmosphere can produce an insidious form of censorship in which members of the University refrain from inviting certain guests or even from expressing certain ideas...