Word: resistable
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...students are wondering if the SSS is something more than an insignificant aberration from the values of our society. More and more are concluding that the SSS does represent the prevailing outlook, and that the only way to prevent the disastrous fulfillment of the self-fulfilling prophecy is to resist the organization which most inflexibly enforces that outlook...
...vote at Harvard tends to reenforce the credibility of each of the studies. Further coroboration comes in that both polls found approximately the same percentage of adamant draft resistors. While Marshall discovered that 29.8 per cent of the Harvard students polled endorsed sit-ins, draft card burning, and draft resistance as a legitimate form of anti-war protest, the CRIMSON poll found 22 per cent of the Harvard students would resist the draft by either leaving the country or going to jail if such an act were necessary in order to avoid induction...
Until now, however, it was impossible to estimate the number of students who actually planned to resist the draft. The recent poll given by the CRIMSON to Harvard seniors indicates that about one out of every four students say they will leave the country or go to jail if all their applications for deferment are rejected...
Above all, the simple statistic that one out of four will resist reveals that a significant number of students at one of the U.S.'s most prestigious universities feel that there is an enormous gap between their personal values and the jobs they are being trained to hold in the future. How can a student who says to himself that he must go to jail in order to live morally in his own country ever see himself as filling a position of responsibility and power in the future? In spite of this, the student elite is told time and time...
...fact that I had caused all kinds of 'trouble' in high school and college and got arrested in Chester. I couldn't be religious and do that. Apparently, a religious guy just sits off in a corner and meditates. And a pacifist is a retiring sort, 'who resists not evil.' I think it's our business to resist evil...