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Stoic. this is from "the new york times" on february 5th, 1960. in a few cases the negros were shoved and they were spattered with eggs. a bottle of aknommonia went thrh the doors. they stood talking in low voices studying or staring at their tormenters. so contrary to human nature to not react to violence with violence of your own. to just take it. what those demonstrators 50 years ago in north carolina did took almost inhuman discipline. and it was a large part of the reason they succeeded. th...

That was more restrained than before. some families and some kids and some women did turn out today. the crowd looked to be more male than it had been. the very young, the very old and women were less evident today after these two days of bloodshed that we saw leading up to today. 50 years ago, 51 years ago to the day actually, the greensboro, north carolina, lunch counter sit ins were just starting. anti-segregation activists began challenging the whites only policy at the lunch counters with a...

Thought irrespective of what may be happening, forcing me to the back of the bus or to not allow me to sit at lunch counters, i could go to the supreme court and they wouldnt look at social morets and they would look at the law and they would do it in an impartial way. if we signal, before the issue is ever brought forward that you will rule one way or the other, thats just not good for the american people. and i think that was a horrible mistake for the justice to go to this tea party meeting. ...

Whitewash he and his fellow terrorist actions. here it is. >> when people got on buses and rode interstate or sat down at lunch counters or sad in at draft boards, we werent being violent ourselves, we were exposing the violence that was inherent in the system. >> glenn: the question on whether planting bombs in the pentagon, capital building, police stations, bank, plotting riots and plotting the deaths of 25 million americans, whether thats terrorist. it would have been a good follow-up questi...

Whitewash he and his fellow terrorist actions. here it is. >> when people got on buses and rode interstate or sat down at lunch counters or sad in at draft boards, we werent being violent ourselves, we were exposing the violence that was inherent in the system. >> glenn: the question on whether planting bombs in the pentagon, capital building, police stations, bank, plotting riots and plotting the deaths of 25 million americans, whether thats terrorist. it would have been a good follow-up questi...

>> marshall was a man of heroic imagination. 100 years after the end of slavery in the 50s, he looks around and lives in a segregated society where people cant go to lunch counters, schools, swimming pools, all of that discrimination, housing and decides that you can use the law to change it. that was such an act of imagination. >> whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation or decency. >> it is a uniquely american life, and he talks about america. the last thing ...

Insofar as this court is concerned. >> marshall was a man of heroic imagination. a hundred years after the end of slavery in the 50s, he looks around and lives in a segregated society where people cant go to lunch counters, schools, swimming pools, all of that discrimination, housing and decides that you can use the law to change it. and that was such an active imagination. >> whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation, or decency. >> it is a uniquely american li...

Sessions, and the other comments of senator kyl, two very important republican senators when it comes to judicial confirmations. they were pretty unconfrontational. they were not loaded for bear about elena kagan. they certainly didnt say they were going to vote for her. but the comments were very much in the realm of, were going to take a hard look at it. were not making any promises. but if you want to defeat a supreme court nominee the way democrats defeated robert borke in 1987, you need to ...

Coolidge. it wasnt until the 80s in the advent of multi day hearings being televised things got rolling in terms of the political drama. july 1st, 1987, ronald reagan nominated a vacancy created on the supreme court. within 45 minutes of the bork nomination, 45 minutes, ted kennedy stormed on to the senate floor to declare jborks nomination essentially dead on arrival. >> robert borks america is a land in which women would be forced into backaly abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch co...

Sensitivity comes in play because i hope that the assumption is always decency even if thats not the follow-through. my point with this is time, place, and manner. >> exactly. [ overlapping voices ] >> not letting them out of the restaurant and all that, cornering, no, no, no. you shouldnt be able to do that. go on. sorry. >> look, i think when youre going to get into it, you have to know what youre going to get out of it, right? thats a good line. i didnt come up with it. when youre going to ge...