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...closing, it seems that in her article Grossman barely scraped the surface of what is for millions of people a tragic way of life. In trying to absolve himself and people like him of the guilt for allowing such an unjust and repressive system to exist, Saied Kashani continues to lie to himself and others about the racial climate in our home state. As for those who accept what I have said but don't believe that all Californians should be held responsible for the acts of a few, for those who believe that Californians whose "hands are clean" have...
...accompany formal sanctions. Civil disobedience is only justified when legal avenues of protest and dialogue have been exhausted; in such circumstances it becomes the only means for those without power to draw attention to their cause and to bring pressure on those in authority. Demonstrators need not only violate unjust laws. Protesters frequently violate minor and irrelevant statutes--by trespassing, for example, at the Pentagon or the South African Embassy or the federal building in Boston--in order to dramatize the spectacle of dissenters being arrested by those determined to maintain an immoral policy...
...maketh his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."--Matthew...
Like many Harvard students, Barrett opposed the Vietnam war. As a sophomore he was one of almost 400 students who signed a Crimson advertisement proclaiming that "Our war in Vietnam is unjust and immoral... As long as the United States is involved in this war I will not serve in the armed forces...
...didn't speak about the human rights activists who were in the camp, but about Maria Semyonova. This woman, a member of the True Orthodox Church, had spent almost her entire life in camps. I referred to her "tragic fate." While I was not speaking of just or unjust sentencing or anything else about the verdicts, I did use the word tragic. This was said to be a "slander" because Semyonova had been correctly sentenced...