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Thus, as the summer turns into fall in Byhalia, the tension and fear remain. The burning of Hubert Mill's store and the apparent attempt to murder the United League leaders could be only a premonition of worse violence to come, as the businessmen lose more money, the blacks make more demands, and the political leaders flounder in indecision and inactivity. A clash of perspectives and values, unmediated by a viable and responsive political system, is inevitably a volatile situation...
...also consider that the student body at Harvard, and all the other young people, students or otherwise, who mill around there at most times of the day, responsible in a large measure for this state of affairs. They are, generally speaking, undisciplined, disorderly to a high degree, and extremely inconsiderate of the rights of others, for all kinds of reasons which they rationalize no doubt into being excellent, but are usually purely selfish and very limited, I consider...
This effort involves plans to hold open houses and forums with other groups at Harvard. "What's in the mill is inviting areas on campus, say dorms and entries, down to Room 13," Booker said...
...print the opinion of a "writer," it is just as significant, important and as democratic to note the experience and occupation of a cotton-mill worker in South Carolina or cowboy in Wyoming as of a former Justice Department official or retired businessman...
...short, a conservative Mill dwelt within the liberal Mill, and in fact tended to dominate everywhere but in On Liberty. Here, Himmelfarb insists that Mill, under the goading of the formidable Harriet, became more radical than he realized or wanted to be. In extending the common piety about freedom of speech to freedom of action, he committed an act of intellectual subversion for which the 20th century has paid with the impossible drunken dream of total freedom. Lord Acton's dictum -power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely-we have learned all too well. It is time...