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...goal of bringing such unjust registration procedures to national attention, however, King's drive was a success. In this, King was helped considerably by the clumsy antics of Sheriff Clark. Last week the 220-lb. Clark tangled violently along the courthouse waiting line with Mrs. Annie Lee Cooper, a 226-lb. aspiring registrant. Mrs. Cooper twice walloped Clark solidly and appeared to be outpointing him until three burly deputies came to his aid. While the deputies pinned her to the ground, Clark belabored her with his billy club...
However, relatively little has been said about the equally unjust execution of rebel prisoners by the white mercenaries. By its involvement, the United States is partially responsible here. The US action cannot be defended as "an act of mercy" unless mercy be defined as the butchering of one group in place of the butchering of another...
...individuals they should be free to organize politically and risk arrest without the added jeopardy of university punishment. But the university promptly reopened the dispute by threatening to discipline four student leaders, including Savio, who had organized the demonstration around the police car. Shouted Savio: "This factory does unjust things, and we'll have to cause the wheels to grind to a halt." Then he led the investment of Sproul Hall...
...letters from Frost's youth and middle years asked- politely and entertainingly, but with insistence-for money, or flattered editors so that money could be asked for in the future. He coached friendly critics, and was shameless in calling attention to the notices they produced. An unfriendly and unjust reading of his correspondence could have it that Frost spent the first two-thirds of his life hawking his product and the last third complacently enjoying the proceeds...
...aristocrats. Those born to power may be corrupt, Anouilh seems to argue, but they know how to rule and they can dispassionately temper justice with mercy. But the arrivistes of power, the burning incorruptible zealots like Bitos-Robespierre, pursue justice so obsessively that they end up being savagely unjust. Anouilh masterfully unfolds the psychology of the revolutionary mentality, with its abstract love of "humanity" but contempt for individual men, together with the secret snobbery of the proletarian leader who greatly prizes the good opinion of the class he wants to exterminate...