America,+the+First+Amendment,+and+the+Outside+Agitator

"I might just indicate to you that the so-called outside agitator, which is the term that is used by the prosecution frequently, the outside agitator brought the Freedom Riders throughout the South that led to integrated interstate travel in 1961. The outside agitator leading the voter registration drives led to the Civil Rights Act of 1966. The outside agitator led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that there shall be no discrimination in public accommodations.  The outside agitators led to the Civil Rights Act of 1968 that there hall not be discrimination in housing.  The outside agitators in St. Augustine, Selma, Jackson, Mississippi, Birmingham, these places that have become so familiar in the last decade, have led to all of the reforms, and there is a reason for it, and the reason is that it takes the man who doesn't make his livelihood in the community, and who isn't afraid of losing his job, or having his house burned, to come in and give courage to people who live in communities which are repressed." //- Speech made by William Kunstler in the Defense closing arguments of the Chicago Eight Trial, February 12, 1970//



 "I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? " - Bill Maher

 "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." - Martin Luther King, Jr.



 "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. " - Henry David Thoreau





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