“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and li…
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’” — Martin Luther King Jr., August 1963. Malcolm X dismissed King and other mainstream leaders as “nothing but modern Uncle Toms” who “keep us passive and peaceful and nonviolent,” insisting there “was no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.” The disagreement between these two positions concerned
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In January 2009, a call to mail tea bags to members of Congress grew into a national Tea Party movement with chapters in all fifty states — a loose collection of activists who described themselves as “disaffected,” “angry,” and “very conservative.” In the fall of 2011, a call to “Occupy Wall Street” drew protesters who identified themselves as the voice of “the 99 percent,” victimized by the wealthiest one percent. The chapter presents these two movements as
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“It is difficult, if not impossible, to ignore charges made by Senator McCarthy just because they are usually proved exaggerated or false.” –New York Times. McCarthy was “a ballyhoo artist who has to cover up his shortcomings with wild charges.” — Harry S. Truman, privately. Together these passages best explain
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