The Right of Revolution Author:Truman Nelson This impassioned - and prophetic - declaration of revolution based on America's revolutionary past, should force us to re-evaluate the opening assertions of the Declaration of Independence (as John Quincy Adams did, when accused of treason on the floor of Congress, for presenting a petition for the dissolution of the Union) in terms of the uphea... more »vals occurring in our cities almost daily.
To restate the great revolutionary aims of the American beginning, as embodied in Adams, Garrison, Parker, John Brown, and Thoreau, is not the author's ultimate purpose. He endows with the same revolutionary morality their black counterparts today ... Robert Williams, and exile in China, William Epton, convicted of "criminal anarchy" by the State of New York, and the black men of Newark's violent week of rebellion ... all an inescapable part of the American revolutionary tradition.
Truman Nelson, a white man, takes this position out of a deep conviction that the fate of black and white in this troubled country is indivisible.« less