-Quote from George Washington-

"When the government fears the people, we have liberty, but when the people fear the government, we have tyranny." - George Washington, American Revolutionary and first President of the USA

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Time honored tradition

Boycotts is known as "voting with your dollar".  Both Caesar Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr started boycotts.  Caesar Chavez started a boycott of table grapes to protest the working conditions and low wages of migrant farm workers and Dr. King started a boycott of the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott to protest segregation of "colored" people and whites in the 1960's south.  The Jews in Nazi Germany started a boycott of German businesses to protest antisemitism in the 1930's.  This nonviolent action started "krystalnaught", where Jewish businesses were ransacked and the windows were smashed.

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