Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commemerate the symbolic significance of the Tea party without acknowledging the significance of the commitment to violence is to miss the point altogether. Boston did not win its "Cradle of Liberty" name because of a special intellectual quality of its leaders but because of a special leaders were willing to resort to violence under conditions they thought to be oppressive. The American Revolution began in Boston because Samuel Adams and the South End Mob were the first to understand Tom Paine's admonition, "Moderation in principle is always a vice...
...erosion of their own liberties and to the repression of freedom in other parts of the world. Whether Americans will soon become steadfast in their resistance to oppression depends on their coming to understand what resistance is all about. The way we celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party will gauge the depth of that understanding...
...OCCASION of the 100th anniversary of the Tea Party in 1873, a group of Boston's finest citizens, including Harvard President Josiah Quincy, gathered in Faneuil Hall to commemorate the deeds of the South End Mob. The organizers wanted to find some appropriate way to mark the occasion, so they came up with the idea of having a tea party of their own. After a series of patriotic speeches, including one by Frederick Douglass about women's suffrage, women went up and down the aisles of the hall and served the celebrants little cups of tea...
...Josiah Quincy gang probably believed they were justly honoring the first Tea Party with their dainty little tea service. Violence was not mentioned in any of the speeches nor did any of the speakers refer to the oppression which led to the celebration. For the celebrants in Faneuil Hall the struggle was over and done with; all that was left was to sit back and enjoy a cup of tea...
Nixon and his Bicentennial Commission will ignore these issues. They will ignore what the American Revolution was really about and what it took to win it. They, like Josiah Quincy a hundred years ago will sit back and sip a cup of tea and say, "Let's keep revolutions in the history books where they belong...