“…It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it. For
there is much to dissent from. We dissent from the fact that millions are
trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich. We dissent from the conditions
and hatred which deny a full life to our fellow citizens because of the color
of their skin. We dissent from the monstrous absurdity of a world where nations
stand poised to destroy one another, and men must kill their fellow men. We
dissent from the sight of most of mankind living in poverty, stricken by
disease, threatened by hunger and doomed to an early death after a life of
unremitting labor. We dissent from cities which blunt our senses and turn the
ordinary acts of daily life into a painful struggle. We dissent from the
willful, heedless destruction of natural pleasure and beauty. We dissent from
all those structures-of technology and of society itself-which strip from the
individual the dignity and warmth of sharing in the common tasks of his
community and his country.”
