Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many forms of protest whose aim is to break the law and confront the established order. In citing the Alabama protests he recognizes the limited aims of particular acts of civil disobedience; he even defends their good results. Thus, by including the civil rights sit-ins in his examples of legitimate protest, Kennedy enlarges...
...tear down the system, but to make use of its possibilities." The statement took aim at an issue that is the jugular vein to the nation's politics and the heart to the movement that activates concerned students. The nation decries violence and disruption while the students protest injustices and the failures of the system...
MOREOVER, along with this changed attitude toward authority, students have recognized the effectiveness of the violent protest as a means of political action. They understand the risks but they comprehend that they can actually force the system to change by physically confronting it. In the end students have finally been convinced by the results rather than by the methods...
...political protest movement has also undergone a change in this process. For whereas the early sixties might have had as an object the highlighting of certain political wrongs when they protested, the aim of dissent is now to force change upon the system...
Edward Kennedy is a politician. He is faced with a youthful faction within the constituency to which he is appealing which wants to change the system. Their form of protest is new and often times ellegitimate. It must be met with action by the authorities...