Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think they should take over a building, they don't have a right to do this; they don't have a right to destroy property. If you and I argue, there is nothing that you and I can't sit down and discuss...
...this because it's the in thing to do. Where they're at at Harvard is unclear to me--you should sit down and examine what you're talking about and what you're doing. The whole nation is in an uptight bag... the police have got to go in there and break some heads to fit in with the norm of the nation. You're angry because you saw what happened--I've seen that all my life...
...direct negotiations with Israel: "I continue to be opposed to direct talks with the Israelis. I am indeed familiar with their argument thats the only way to achieve peace is to sit down with the Arabs at the conference table. But what is there to talk about? If they refuse to ac cept the conditions contained in the November 22nd [U.N.] resolution, what can be the basis of direct negotiations? No, I am afraid the Israelis are more interested in holding on to their occupied territories than they are in finding a solution. The Israeli demand for face-to-face...
Perhaps Chicago's example cannot be applied universally. The school has a long tradition of intellectual discussion that made the vast majority of students unwilling to join the sit-in. Most of its students are in graduate and professional courses, are less subject to undergraduate enthusiasms. Levi has relegated increasing responsibility for the university's conduct to the faculty, by so doing has engaged the support of most professors. And Levi has earned ample respect by years of brilliant scholarship, educational reform and urban involvement. But his example could well be studied by other college administrators...
...position taken by the Student Association and the administration of the Business School. We had hoped that leadership would emerge from the white student body condemning the outrageous action taken by Mr. Pusey and his staff. Since that leadership has not come forth, we, as concerned citizens, cannot sit by complacently and not react to the way in which Harvard's administration conducted itself during the present crisis...