Word: respect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South, would the cause of justice have been served? And what if no one had challenged King George's laws and magistrates in the 1770s? When a society's leadership lets too many oppressive or unworkable laws accumulate, or takes them too literally, it lessens genuine respect for laws that are just and necessary. But to break laws in order ultimately to change the Law is a near-desperate step permissible only when every possible hope of peaceful change has been exhausted; very few Americans would argue that, for all the country's ills, that step...
...largely true, as politicians never tire of remarking, that respect for law and authority-whether in the form of the cop or the university or the President-has diminished markedly in the last generation. However, a society that expects to keep challenge within reasonable bounds must retain a sense of perspective. Demands that the letter of every law be enforced to the full are risible. Myriad statutes range from Internal Revenue Service rulings to Coast Guard safety regulations for pleasure boats, and hundreds of such laws are widely flouted by the most respectable citizens. It is seldom that a responsible...
...many respects policemen represent the most typical beliefs and attitudes of their communities, including what Los Angeles Chief Thomas Reddin deplores as a moralistic tendency to see things in terms of either-or. Not surprisingly, police tend to be appalled by abnormal behavior and rebellions against authority. Most scorn long hair, and homosexuality horrifies them. With their ingrained respect for work, they take a dim view of people living on welfare. Perhaps most irritating to cops are the white antiwar protesters, most of them collegians who have rejected advantages that policemen themselves lacked and toil to give their own children...
Widespread anxiety has slowed the Greek economy to a walk. The government keeps prices low, so most people can buy enough to live on. But no one is interested in buying anything, outside of subsistence goods, except land. Nobody has respect for the Greek currency. Many people said they were hoarding British Gold Pounds for the period after the regime. The junta's claim that the tourist trade was "much better in 1968 than in the previous year" is true but there still aren't nearly as many tourists as before the revolution...
YPSL termed the no-grape announcement "a victory for the tactics of peaceful protest and respect for democratic civil liberties...