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...have unrealized potential forself-cultivation, self-direction,self-understanding and creativity," SDS member TomHayden wrote in the port Huron statement. "It isthis potential that we regard as crucial and towhich we appeal...
...University," Todd Gitlin '63 said in aninterview for Kirkpatrick Sale's book SDS,"Begins to feel like a cage...
...SDS wanted to change that. In the grandiloquentphrases of hard-core idealists, the SDSersproclaimed their humanism at the Port Huronconference, writing that individualism "imprintsone's individual qualities in relation to othermen, and to all human activity...
...Early SDS projects emphasized members'commitment to social change and groupdecision-making. Volunteers moved to lowincomeareas of northern cities such as Chicago, wherethey attempted to organize unemployed neighborhoodresidents and live according to the principles ofparticipatory democracy...
Many of these students had spent the summerlearning about activism and facing tear gas inMaryland under the Student Non-violentCoordinating Coalition (SNCC). The coalition, theother major activist group during the decade,sponsored protests against segregation and drivesfor voting rights in the South. SNCC had the tightdiscipline and organization that SDS'sparticipatory democracy often undermined...