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...into a very complicated issue. We've seen enough in this century to make us suspicious of people like me, but also to make us suspicious of people who say, "You cannot look at particular human beings and their needs when you're out to change society." This latter viewpoint can be used as a rationalization and justification for the most mean and cruel and inhuman political acts imaginable...
...significance of Indiana, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was not that it demonstrated overwhelming strength or that it promised victory at the Chicago convention; it did neither. Rather, it demonstrated his survival power in hostile territory. Uncommitted party leaders in such large states as Illinois and Michigan, regardless of their personal feelings toward Kennedy, must respect a candidate who fights hard and pulls well in urban areas. Those who might have been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week...
Moreover, I cannot quite accept the viewpoint that the black man's experience with white oppression has endowed Black Men with a special insight into oppression and thus a special will or capacity to rid human affairs of oppression. I would argue in fact that this viewpoint is largely a political one which certain groups find serviceable in the contemporary conflict between Negro and white in American society. Indeed, it is a common fallacy to believe that what is momentarily politically serviceable is ipso facto intellectually virtuous. Even though I understand this viewpoint as held by black nationalists...
...sicking the police on them before the violence. The main obstacle to reconciliation in the final days before the violence was the demonstrators' insistence on total amnesty. According to the Times, they even refused the administration's offer to let them off with "just a warning." From the viewpoint of the Majority Coalition, whose claim to speak for most Columbia students could not be disputed, the rebels' position seemed totally unjustifiable. It was the old story of a minority trying to impose its will on the majority, bringing memories of the Dow Demonstrations at Harvard. In light of the subsequent...
...genuinely pleased to have an open opponent at last. Choosing his words carefully, he jabbed at Rockefeller only indirectly for his refusal to enter the primaries: "I think the people ought to have something to say about the selection of a nominee. Others, of course, may have a different viewpoint and decide not to enter the primaries...