Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punishment must come, Griswold said, simply because the law has been broken. "It is the essence of law that it binds all alike, irrespective of personal motive," he added. This is true whether the protester decides "to halt a troop train to protest the Viet Nam war" or "fire shots into a civil rights leader's home to protest integration...
...windows were splintered by more than 150 bullets. Out into a search light's glare emerged 17-year-old Bobby J. Hutton, the Panthers' treasurer. Retching from the gas, he was hunched over. The police believed he might be armed and said he disregarded a command to halt. The circle of law officers shot him dead...
...area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer-yet at first Mayor Richard Daley failed, inexplicably, to impose a curfew. In Har lem, gleeful mobs cavorted and Mayor John Lindsay, though unharmed as he walked among them, was powerless to halt the orgy. Sniping, the most feared of ghetto tactics in summers past, was rare; by week's end, riot-connected deaths in the U.S. totaled more than...
...MARCHING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS (Selma to Montgomery, 1965): Like an idea whose time has come, not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us. We are moving to the land of freedom. Let us march to the realization of the American dream. Let us march on segregated housing. Let us march on segregated schools...
King's uniqueness lay not in the philosophy of non-violence he pieced together from Gandhi, Thoreau and others, but in the wholehearted Americanism with which he fought his battles. When an injunction was issued to halt the Memphis sanitation workers' demonstration he planned to lead, King called it a totalitarian measure--the kind one would expect of the Russians or Chinese. "Somewhere I have read," King said, "somewhere I have read of the freedom of assembly...