Compare and contrast the YAF’s Sharon Statement (Sourcebook…
Compare and contrast the YAF’s Sharon Statement (Sourcebook #170) and the SDS’s Port Huron Statement (Sourcebook #173) as pertains to their definitions of “freedom.” How are these statements both critiques of the society of the 1960’s? In what ways are these critiques similar? In what ways are they different? Although the YAF represented a “New Right” (Conservatism) movement and the SDS represented a “New Left” (Liberalism) movement, in what ways do each of their statements coincide with the original ideals of freedom from the Declaration of Independence on which the US was founded?
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