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Should A President Give His/Her Party's Acceptance Speech From The White House?
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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4601475" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>if they are racist they shouldnt be terrorized into not being racist i dont think. what those BLM protestors did was wrong to those diners.</p><p></p><p></p><p> “You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” I would tell them. Some were baffled by the metaphor, especially if they took it literally and tried to dissect its meaning. Others immediately saw what I meant: that events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and <strong>to be neutral means to accept that</strong>.” </p><p>― Howard Zinn, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/878739" target="_blank">You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times</a> </p><p></p><p></p><p> “Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. <strong>The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience</strong>, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. <strong>Such obedience led to the horrors</strong> we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it...</p><p></p><p>In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did.”</p><p>― Howard Zinn, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/878739" target="_blank">You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4601475, member: 56035"] if they are racist they shouldnt be terrorized into not being racist i dont think. what those BLM protestors did was wrong to those diners. “You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” I would tell them. Some were baffled by the metaphor, especially if they took it literally and tried to dissect its meaning. Others immediately saw what I meant: that events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and [B]to be neutral means to accept that[/B].” ― Howard Zinn, [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/878739']You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times[/URL] “Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. [B]The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience[/B], the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. [B]Such obedience led to the horrors[/B] we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it... In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did.” ― Howard Zinn, [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/878739']You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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