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...protest'-but on the other hand, 'We're not going to let you come into a store or restaurant.' It seems to me it's a two-way street ... the way you make the problem go away, in my opinion, is to provide for redress of grievances...
...sides. Southern Democrats, cried Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, were members of a "calculating clique" that uses Washington "as the seat of a conspiracy to continue human slavery under another name. Let there be no uncertainty. There will be a massive march on Washington as a living petition for a redress of old, old grievances." As for Senate Republicans and their leader Everett Dirksen: "The Dirksen leadership can bring on moral disaster for the Republican Party . . . We intend to work for the defeat in the next election of those lawmakers who fail to support and vote for strong civil rights legislation...
...what course of action will be most effective in securing passage of legislation that includes as much of the Administration's original package as possible. It would be unfortunate indeed if Negro leaders stick to their "principles" of direct action, and in doing so defeat all chance for legal redress of their grievances. For the tactics employed in the past by advocates of integration remain only tactics, means to the higher end of increased opportunity and equality for Negro citizens...
...Warning. But Diem's intransigence troubled the U.S. In Saigon, U.S. embassy officials bluntly warned Diem that the U.S. would publicly condemn his treatment of the Buddhists unless he took prompt action to redress their grievances. Behind the U.S. threat was the fear that continued Buddhist discontent could cause passive resistance to government programs in the rural provinces where political unity is the key to victory in the war against the Communist Viet Cong...
...that very time, Karl Marx was writing Das Kapital, striking back at liberal individualism in the name of mankind. For the industrial worker, argued Marx, had been "reduced to a mere fragment of a man, mentally and physically dehumanized," and only collective action, state action, could redress his wrongs...