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DISSENT. Middle Americans associate black militancy with white students' dissent???university revolts that the white Middle, brought up to cherish education as an almost sacred instrument of self-improvement, find incomprehensible. "San Francisco State is being destroyed by a bunch of crummy punks." says Eric Hoffer. "Who the hell would have dreamt that a thing like this was possible? Ignorant, bedraggled, illiterate punks! Our institutions are tremendously vulnerable. What are we afraid of? Of the Government? Of the police? Of Congress? No, for God's sake, we're afraid of the individual, of the beast masquerading as man." Some less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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