Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard and club the sons of the ruling class, they are portrayed not as the agents of class-conflict but as fascist pigs. From accounts I have seen, the brutality of the police action consisted as much of psychological shock as of real physical abuse. Any abuse of police power is deplorable; still, if one wants to sponsor revolutionary, up-against-the-wall-type confrontations, one ought to accept the accompanying risks and not be too quick to cry foul...
Nevertheless, however worthy the special committee as a study group, it is clear that it is a mistake to also assign the power to discipline students to this body...
...view of these circumstances the Faculty should withdraw the power of discipline from the special committee and vote on the matter itself at its meeting today. Student opinion has been sufficiently expressed. The committee for Radical Structural Reform proposal, which was accepted by an overwhelming voice vote at the Soldiers' Field meeting, specifically demanded that no one be punished by severance or suspension. The Strike Steering Committee, also with massive student backing, calls for complete amnesty. The CRIMSON has urged complete amnesty for the University Hall demonstrators; we do so again today...
...want to "wreck this slow, inefficient democratic system." It took the human race centuries of thought and pain and suffering and hard experiment to devise it. Democracy is not a "state" but a process; it is a way of solving human problems, a way of hobbling power, a way of protecting every minority from the awful, fatal tyranny of either the few of the many...
Whatever its imperfections, democracy is the only system man has discovered that makes possible change without violence. Do you really prefer bloodshed to debate? Quick dictates to slow law? This democracy made possible a great revolution in the past 35 years (a profound transfer of power, a distribution of wealth, an improvement of living and health) without "liquidating" millions, without suppressing free speech, without the obscenities of dogma enforced by terror...