Authority Assertion Quotes



The State Police then attacked the demonstrators with night sticks, bull whips and tear gas. The demonstrators were trying to cross the bridge to Montgomery. There was no legal Constitutional way that the marchers could be stopped, but the Alabama State Police then constantly violated the law.


In 1934 Sir Osward, an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, advocated that Hitler be made Dictator of England. Mosby was referred to as “Public Enemy Number One” and at this speech, protestors climbed up to the rafters and shouted protests. Some of his supporters, thugs dressed in black shirts, climbed up to confront and battle the protestors. Mosley wanted no violence to mar his appearance but had trouble controlling his Blackshirts. His supporters paid him little heed. Over 100 people were injured and dozens arrested. Often called Blackshirts