The day was full of TV cam­eras, spontaneous singing, speeches, clapping, and the echo of Martin Luther King’s phrase: “I have a dream … ”

“The cops dropped me in the street and disappeared. My face, and my press card, were covered with blood. I went to the hospital to get five stitches in my forehead. So I missed the climax of the Yip-In, but I can pass on various accounts of witnesses”

“The 1968 Civil Disorders Bill had been pushed through Congress by Southern reactionaries who were convinced that there was a combined black power-communist conspiracy to burn down the American cities. Now it had actually been applied”

He had quit high school at sixteen, worked as a sheet metal worker in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, joined the navy at seventeen, read and studied to make up the missing years of high school.

“Plainclothesmen seized some 50 demonstrators, slammed them against parked cars, and tossed them head first into paddy wagons”

"The new left, like the old, is beginning to subordinate the individual, his needs, his feelings, his beliefs, to the cause. And that isn't my kind of movement."

"The Mayor greeted the march, and reiterat­ed his call for an end to the war. Finally there seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel. So encouraged, 90,000 people came to the Sheep Meadow last Saturday to press for final resolution."

"Compared to the naked hate on the faces of the sidewalk hecklers, those of the marchers I associated in my mind with early Christian martyrs, as they bravely faced scorn with songs,"

The Fourth of July protests against ICE and separating immigrant families are part of a long tradition of Statue of Liberty action, including one in 1991 for abortion rights