Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picketed the Dow Chemical representative last Wednesday. The demonstration was certainly noted in Europe as well as within the United States. I hope that in considering possible discipline of those involved, the Faculty will not allow parochial considerations of their own convenience to blind them to the enoromous moral implications of the demonstrators' stand. Few of the many parallels drawn between the war in S.E. Asia and World War II seem to be relevant. But it is certainly possible that if the manufacturers of poisonous gases in Nazi Germany had been more actively opposed by other Germans, many lives might...
...entire, awful delusion. I've no desire to make a rational, scholarly demonstration of this. I hope that humans will make some portion of this effort for themselves, take into account the full seriousness of the occupations of their lives, and act not in accordance with either false archaic moral high commands or cynical manipulation, both of which are in the air like smog, but in accordance with the world's possibilities, with what people can do, can make of these bodies so excellent for loving, exploring, and dying a more fitting death than the nuclear, the explosive, the incendiary...
...neither physical violence nor property desruction. A man was detained in his room for several hours (where presumably he would have remained for the better part of the day anyway, had he been interviewing job applicants), in conscious, communal violation of University regulations. The demonstration was an act of moral outrage, more or less spontaneous on the part of the majority of participants. When one has wrestled with all of the complex arguments about free speech, individual rights, the difficulty in drawing lines and making general cases, political effectiveness, university discipline and so on, one still must come back...
...essentially non-violent act taken by a significant segment of the University community out of this sense of moral outrage simply cannot and should not be dealt with in narrow and punitive legalistic terms. The Dow protest has raised some very important issues about the role of the University, issues which the University should fully discuss and deal with, rather than attempting to shift the focus to essentially trivial questions of behavioral infractions. The University administration's attempt to isolate and divide the protestors is most ignoble. Those who share this moral outrage--faculty and students alike--should not allow...
Many demonstrators believed that since their act was "political," each of them--whether he sat in or not--deserved the same punishment. Therefore they denied the very basis of the punishment--physical obstruction--and refused to clear themselves even if not directly involved. By insisting on the collective moral strength of their cause, some demonstrators precluded any cooperation with a Board that was bent on being fair to everyone concerned...