Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Active Neutrality." Getting Mindszenty out of Hungary is the next major tactic in Pope John XXIII's strategy of making Roman Catholicism "actively neutral'' in the cold war. John believes that his goal of world peace is compromised by such symbols of intransigence as Mindszenty-and the Hungarians have pointedly hinted to the Vatican that they want Mindszenty out. Accordingly, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, a skilled, diplomatic archbishop whom the Pope has used on other delicate missions, is arranging to visit Budapest, possibly within a month. He will gently inform Mindszenty that the Pope...
...your editorial of March 23 (Integration and Violence) may I say that I agree with the statement that the tactic of self-defense on the part of Negroes will become more widespread on the part of Negroes will become more widespread in areas of racial tension. But I disagree with the somewhat naive notion that the federal government's intervention to prevent violence will actually do anything in this country. What most people are unaware of or are unwilling to admit is that the system of oppression under which the black man in this country exists was established...
...throughout the South, but especially so in Mississippi. Segregationists channel their fear into violence. Most integrationist groups are non-violent, and the Government's agencies are ineffective. This kind of situation can naturally lead to real pogroms, if it lasts. It probably won't last. Among Negro leaders, the tactic of violence in self-defense has become increasingly acceptable. Among Negro people, the constraints of ghetto life have become increasingly intolerable. If the Government does not act to enforce the law of integration, then Negroes will almost certainly resort to violence in self defense: to gain their constitutional rights...
...past few years some militant Negro leaders have begun to thing of violence, or its threat, as a positive tactic for achieving equality. James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time warns his readers that if integration is none enforced soon, Harlem will explode. In New York City this month a group of moderate whites and Negroes have been trying to organize 100,000 Harlem residents to march peacefully through the city, as a protest, a threat, and a moral equivalent to war. Some student integrationist groups have recently been discussing violence in the North or South not an an abstract...
...conclusion Williams drew from the episode suggest the argument that has persuaded many integrationists that the tactic of violence in self-defense is the only way to combat the anarchic legal system in the South. "As a result of our stand, and our willingness to fight, the state of North Carolina had enforced law and order. Just two state troppers did the job and no one got hurt in a situation where normally (in the South) a lot of Negro blood would have flowed. The city closed the pool for the rest of the year and we withdrew the picket...