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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. the greensboro sit in began february of 1960 and six months later the lunch counters were

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 protest. a protest that was blistering confrontational and also totally nonviolent. the strategy us...

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 wouldn't 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, that's 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. >> congressman clyburn, good to see you. thank you so much for being on. >> thank you vovp for hav...

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 weren't 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 that's terrorist. it would have been a good follow-up question, but good thing they didn't ask it. the russian news agency probably, you know, didn't have tha...

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 weren't 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 that's terrorist. it would have been a good follow-up question, but good thing they didn't ask it. the russian news agency probably, you know, didn't have tha...