Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power quarrel. The militants can be expected to cite the savagery of white Mississippians as proof that Negroes can hardly expect much in the way of help from whites. The moderates can be expected to counter, as Ralph Abernathy, one of King's aides, did recently, with the argument that "if the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is carried to its ultimate conclusion, we are eventually going to have everybody eyeless and everybody toothless...
Precisely what impact the whole argument will have on the mass of America's 20 million Negroes is something else. A rally in Indianola, along the march route last week, proved only that the mob is most susceptible to the last pitch it has heard. Addressing the crowd there, S.N.C.C. Field Secretary Charles McLaurin advised, "When people say, 'What do you want?' don't say 'freedom!' Say 'black power!' " Then McLaurin shouted, "What do you want?" Yelled the crowd: "Black power!" Minutes later, Ralph Abernathy turned up and asked the crowd, "What...
...traditional argument against off-campus living is that it is damaging to the House system. But under the present circumstances, the conversion of more suites and the early-year administrative chaos may be more damaging still...
Horrendous Results. Little of Warren's argument impressed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who was joined by Byron White, Potter Stewart and Tom Clark in dissent. Reddening with anger and pounding his fist on the desk before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops...
...Norman Thomas got rankled after Buckley began, "If I were asked what has been his specialty in the course of a long career, I guess I would say, 'Being wrong.' " Buckley did feel a little regretful about those programs, and has tried to keep the argument to the point rather than to the person. His favorite shows are those in which he meets his match, and in perhaps the best so far he was actually outpointed by James Farmer on the subject of legislating desegregation...