Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many demonstrators believed that since their act was "political," each of them--whether he sat in or not--deserved the same punishment. Therefore they denied the very basis of the punishment--physical obstruction--and refused to clear themselves even if not directly involved. By insisting on the collective moral strength of their cause, some demonstrators precluded any cooperation with a Board that was bent on being fair to everyone concerned...
...guess I'm a pessimist at heart," the Crimson coach said yesterday, "but I take that Penn-Princeton score to show more about Princeton's defensive strength than the weakness of the Penn Club. And don't forget, the Quakers are next to impossible to beat at home"-- which is where the Harvard booters play Penn this Saturday...
...will no doubt continue. Students who oppose it have a right and a duty to express their opposition. Civil disobedience is not the only way, and it is not the best way--demonstrations are an expression of impotence, not power, and it will take a building of political strength to end the war. But civil disobedience is one way for students to call attention to the incursions of the war on their campus: and the intensity, inevitability, and morality of their protest should be respected...
...grown to a real national organization with about 500 members. A year and a half later, summer 1964, the strength of community organizing as a tactic had gained general acceptance among the nation's activists. That summer SDS started the Economic Resistance into Action Project (ERAB) in Boston, Newark, Cleveland, Baltimore and Chicago. About 150 radicals worked full time to organize ghettos on unemployment, rent, and welfare considerations...
Jared Israel, SDS co-chairman, added, "Evil has the strength these days--the Administration of Harvard, Dow, the U.S. government--do we have the force to defeat them? It's a tactical question. We don't have the power now. We have to get that power...