Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not feel that the power of casting a vote for either Mr. ohnson or Mr. Nixon will be a protest commensurate with the requirements of conscience, one should certainly wait for the Nuremberg trials that will follow the present period of unrest. There, by orderly procedure of law, the matter of responsibility for the fine-deaths of farmers will undoubtedly be considered and reconsidered by reasonable, courteous, duly designated judges. At that time and at that time only will it be appropriate to cast aspersons on the activities of a head of state and his closest lieutenants...
...Senate. The fact that this second sweep was won with large pluralities had led many Massachusetts Republicans to hope that the usually Democratic Irish and Italian voters had elected the Republican candidates mainly because they were Republicans. They felt that the victory did not reflect ethnic voting or a protest against poor candidates offered by the Democratic party. Heightening this belief was the knowledge that the Democratic candidates for governor and senator were energetic, able, good men. If these hopes were true then the Republican party in Massachusetts was at the beginning of a proud...
...begin with, there is the right and necessity of moral protest. Americans in such strong disagreement with their country's policy have the option of either disassociating themselves from their country or taking every opportunity to register their moral and intellectual outrage. McNamara is an obvious symbol against which this protest can be directed...
Frank personally alienated many -- if not most -- members of SDS. By the time the controversy was reaching its final stages, he was hitting them with statements such as: "If SDS can find no other legitimate channels for a protest in a University as liberal as this one, it is simply a measure of their intellectual impotence...
Frank had his own reason to be annoyed. What bothered him most (and what provoked his caustic statement) was that he was not against protest but, on the contrary, had done everything he could to see that SDS's right to protest would be both respected and protected. SDS did not seem thankful for this gesture, nor did it seem willing to reciprocate by giving assurances that the demonstration would be peaceful. These conditions, Frank thought, were within the rules of the protest game as it had been played at Harvard and as it should be played. SDS's cold...