nonviolence

What we've got to do is keep hope alive.

~~  John Lennon


     When that song -- "The Ballad of John and Yoko" -- came out, it was after they had a bed-in for peace.

     In the Sixties, when people wanted to highlight a cause, or protest something, or even just say something, they could have a sit-in, or a lie-in, or a be-in, or even -- I heard Joan Baez in an interview reference "a jail-in."  It was also called Social Protest, and Grassroots Action, and it was Nonviolent.


    In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had the first bed-in.

    The original sit-ins, however, occurred in early 1960s -- maybe 50s even, I'm not sure....

----------------- [excerpt, Kennedy And King, by Steven Levingston.  Hachette Books.  New York, Boston.  2017.] ----------------- ...The senator 

attended a luncheon for African diplomats where he called equal rights "essentially a moral issue," and again he underscored the need for moral leadership in the White House.   He voiced strong support of black protests, zeroing in on the peaceful sit-in movement, 

saying that "some unrest and turmoil and tension [were] part of the price of change."  The sit-ins, he asserted, posed no reason for concern.  

"It is a good sign -- a sign of increased popular responsibility, of good citizenship, of the American spirit coming alive again," Kennedy told the diplomats.  

"It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights -- even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down."

Guns are an abomination.

~~  Richard Nixon
    U.S. President, 1969 - 1974

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