... period the very fabric of what was America was being torn asunder by the call of justice. The search for justice was one of the primary reasons and perhaps the most influential of the reasons that started the revolution that was the student movement of the 60's. In one of the most stirring statements of political philosophy that the world has ever seen: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are ... , 1965, an eighty-two-year-old Quaker woman named Alice Herz immolated herself to protest the war.23 Finally, in 1973, President Nixon ordered for the gradual with drawl of t...

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