Word: dissented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chaplain called to his office girls who represented some of the more important campus organizations and other students who were known to be dissatisfied with life and education at Wellesley. That gathering signified the first time that the isolated voices of dissent on the campus were brought together. Out of the meeting came a list of proposals for reform of the college and an organization, the Committee on Wellesley Indifference (COWI), to work for the acceptance of the reform...
With this assurance, Fortas goes on to describe the role of the Court as that of "striking the balance between the state's right to protect itself and its citizens, and the individual's right to protest, dissent, and oppose." And, with extraordinary civil libertarian vigor, Fortas contends that the U.S. government "recognizes and has always recognized that an individual's fundamental moral or religious commitments are entitled to prevail over the needs of the state...
...Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a man of unimpeachable conscience and motivation, whose Thoreau-like dissent has inspired thousands and ennobled...
...Your "Thanksgiving 1968: Mixed Blessings" [Nov. 29] commentary upon the American scene is far, far too optimistic. The materialistic clamor all about us has just about stilled the human spirit, and the only way the human spirit can now be heard above this deadening din is by way of dissent, protest and demonstration-peaceful and violent...
Wherever there is an unpopular cause that most lawyers would not dare touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...