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...When asked whether the nonviolent civil rights demonstrators were not on occasion guilty of defying the law even as members of the white Citizens Council defy it, Judge Thurgood Marshall replied (roughly) as follows: "When civil rights demonstrators break the law to protest against an unjust social order, they are willing to pay the price-to go to jail if necessary-in order to witness to what they believe in. I wonder if the members of the white Citizens Councils are willing to do the same?" The tradition of civil disobedience in our country is an old one. When Henry...
...exercise in futility. No sooner would the Government dislodge one unjust voting law than Southern legislatures would dream up another. "Then," says Nick Katzenbach, "you've got to bring suits to throw these out too. You've got to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and when you get that done, there's nothing to prevent them from coming up with something else...
...troopers belong to the cowboy school, which holds that the only way to deal with the Commie beatnik agitators is to run roughshod over them. The police chiefs in the two towns, on the other hand, while not always just, use restraint in their defenses of an unjust order...
...Although I agree in general with your article about Switzerland, there is one remark in it that I feel is unjust. You stated that the Swiss do not like foreigners except for their money. Do you know how many Swiss have learned the Italian language for no other purpose than for ease of communication with the immigrants...
Effective authority, Tillich said, needs power, and the conflict of authority with authority leads, inevitably, to the use of force. "But when is coercion a just expression of power, when an unjust one?" Old criteria-the medieval concept of the just war, for example-no longer serve in an age of possible atomic conflagration, and the many laws that apply to men can only obliquely serve as guides to the proper conduct of nations...