One of the most disturbing things in our day is the apparent breakdown of law and authority. There is an awful lot of foolish talk by otherwise intelligent people who condone it. Some of them try to condone it under the guise of American tradition by saying, “Our nation was born out of violence and will progress by violence.” How foolish can you get?
I like the answer of philosopher Sidney Hook. He said, “Someone should tell them we’ve already won the American Revolution … that we have already had our Boston Tea Party. And we had them because, at the time, there did not exist the political institutions by which we could settle grievances peacefully.”
Today we settle our political grievances through the vote, and not through viol...