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Niebuhr was often a step ahead of history. In 1932, he advised Negroes to organize Gandhian campaigns of nonviolent coercion rather than count on white benevolence. He first protested military involvement in Viet Nam when John F. Kennedy was President...
...Coalition must spell out the nature of nonviolence to both the public and to members of the Coalition. The theory of self-defense must be clarified, and PAX urges that the premise of defending oneself during a civil disobedience action will be abandoned in the Gandhian tradition, PAX suggests as a model, the demonstrations fun locally by N-DAG (Nonviolent Direct Action Group...
...Erikson postulates that youth is a kind of "psychological moratorium," during which young people are entitled to experiment with styles of behavior, and utopian models of human society, without being held accountable. Youth experiments with the Marxist model, putting itself in the role of the proletariat, or with the Gandhian model, putting itself in the role of the non-violent, oppressed colonial, and thus becomes part of the "revolt of the dependent." Youth in development is dependent upon society, as are colonials and the proletariat, and to be dependent means to be exploited. Erikson ascribes various forms of adolescent belief...
...voice of the black, of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, his inchoate rage distilled into visionary phrases: "I have a dream." There were other components in King's leadership: his unusual stature among whites (culminating in the Nobel Prize), the combination of his Southern rural style with Gandhian ideals, and an almost unassailable dignity respected by both blacks and whites. Negroes kiddingly called him "De Lawd," but it was particularly important that King was a kind of black father in a Negro society of matriarchal orientation. He was an example to the young of unique manhood, asserting strength...
...Griswold, 63, former dean of the Harvard Law School and now U.S. Solicitor General; and he wanted to get one major thought across. "One who contemplates civil disobedience," he said, "should not be surprised and must not be bitter if a criminal conviction ensues. It is part of the Gandhian tradition that the sincerity of the individual's conscience presupposes that the law will punish this assertion of personal principle...