“Something happened to many of us there that is hard to describe, harder to explain,” a demonstrator observed. “We went down to protest and returned ready to resist. . . . Many who were not anti-government now are; many who were committed to using legal channels to change governmental policy now have what they consider the governmental attitude—cynicism, violence, covertness—which they may use for the same end. . . . Reason is starting to slip, and like the inmates of concentration camps who gradually took on the values of their oppressors, I fear many are beginning to see violence as the only
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