Word: protestor
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There are two traditions of rebellion against racism in Black history, and they contain the origins of our two movements. One is a tradition of protest, which Martin Luther King took up. With this approach, one seeks to change some aspect of the society, but fundamentally the protestor accepts the basic framework of the social order and the first principles of the nation; in our case, with King, he reasserted, in fact, the principles and freedoms found in the American Constitution. King often spoke of a rededication to these ideals. He even saw civil disobedience as derived from the American...
Jonathan Rosenthal, a 20-year-old protestor not directly involved in the Boston case, yesterday thanked "people of non-draft age for showing their support...
...class people were, as the slogan went, mad as hell, and the right-wing addressed their legitimate complaints, while the left ignored them, or accused them of greed. Consequently, the left had little to offer except more of the same--a clearly unsatisfactory status quo. "Like the respectable antiwar protestor of Jules Feiffer's 1966 cartoon who carried a sign calling for A Little Less Bombing, the cautious liberals of the late seventies were for a little less cutting. It was not a slogan likely to bring anybody to the barricades...
...times, the protester poking and taunting, like a child at the zoo; the man in the cage white-hot with anger, swinging and screaming. Finally, he stops, and reaches to his side for a small black can, a stream of mace. Boltcutters waving at his side, the protestor stumbles away in search of boric acid...
...being redefined. 'Dominion," which Christian theology has used so long to justify people's unrestrained pillage and exploitation of the natural world, has suddenly and dramatically been reinterpreted. Now, according to the now definition, God's first instruction to the human race is to serve as steward and protestor over all of his creation...