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However, there are several exceptions. For example, the Supreme Court has held that "threats may not be punished if a reasonable person would understand them as obvious hyperbole", he writes. [42] [43] Additionally, threats of "social ostracism" and of "politically motivated boycotts" are constitutionally protected. [44]
The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
A Human Rights Day speech to call for a boycott against South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal by the United States, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Germany and Japan. Event was a fundraiser for imprisoned black South Africans. King said "The international potential of nonviolence have never been employed." [86] [87] December 15
Montgomery Bus Boycott speech — Montgomery, Alabama, on December 5, 1955 Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Bettmann/ Getty
More than 50 Democratic lawmakers boycotted the speech, which drew thousands of protesters to the Capitol. In his scathing address, Netanyahu defended the war in Gaza and condemned pro-Palestinian ...
“He is the world’s leading free speech hypocrite,” Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, tells The Independent. “And his actions with respect to ...
The speech primarily concerns the Memphis sanitation strike. King calls for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals. At the end of the speech, he discusses the possibility of an untimely death .
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