Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daley's column, according to the letter, "glosses over the moral implications of individual protest and opens the way for a romantic portrait of the Olympics as a shrine to brotherly competition and good sportsmanship...
...What social protest justifies words like these?" countered Adlow. "They didn't use these words in the French Revolution." Many heads nodded and rolled in the audience...
...addition, McCarthy said, "there is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America-discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest. I am hopeful that this challenge may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics and of American government...
...Communists in West Bengal immediately organized a protest against the Congress Party takeover, and the result was violence in Calcutta, where workers closed down plants and offices, set fire to autos and battled police. Though no Communist himself, the Speaker of the West Bengal house chose to suspend the legislature rather than allow the new Congress-supported government to take office. In the volatile Punjab, religious leaders greeted the Congress move as an attack on the Sikhs and warned their followers to defend themselves. The Congress Party had used its muscle to recapture states that it could...
...their dreams are always of settling down somewhere when hard times are over. When the two take up their aimless career as thieves, they try to see themselves as striking back at the haves on behalf of the have-nots-although there is no hint of ideology or social protest in their actions...