Word: dissent
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...what would become known as a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter...
...February of 1965 something happened which brought students a cause and brought to the country the beginnings of a mass protest movement. It involved people to the political left and right of the civil rights movement. It changed dissent from an intelligent association to a moral cause. The United States began daily bombings of North Vietnam...
With the bombings, dissent at Harvard and around the country became more and more radical. The most effective anti-war propaganda came from a Progressive Labor front organization, the May 2nd Movement. TheS...
...freedoms of this university of this country are reserved only to those on the "right" side of a given issue, then they don't seem to me to be worth very much. One would think that those who support the right of dissent against the policies of their government would be more aware of this. John F. Shelley...
...demonstration were merely an irrelevant, isolated incident, it could be dismissed without too much difficulty. But unfortunately it reflects a shift in the protest movement away from rational dissent, and into the realm of resistance and violence...