The test of a leader's commitment to democracy is not in peaceful and agreeable times but in times of dissent and disagreement.
Prefiguring passages of Norwegian Wood (like Fitzgerald, Murakami often "strips" his stories for re-use), it looks back at the time of student dissent and incorporates several other favourite themes: adolescent metamorphosis, literature, jazz clubs.
He liked to allow, from time to time, a measure of dissent: the odd civil-society N.G.O., narrow openings for opposition parties, independent newspapers or TV channels.
It all happened – very rapidly and without time for dissent – with the passage of rushed security and anti-protest measures adopted by the city council on 18 January 2012.
It's a way of saying this is no time for dissent," Smilde said.
Stakeholders in the UNC system have federal law at their back, history as their guide and the passion to do what students and faculty members in America have done best in times of oppression: dissent, disrupt and demand.
He was interior minister for four years in the 1960s at a time of harsh repression of dissent, when torture was used against detained leftists.
Paradoxically, this is the very value most at risk in a time of war, when dissenting voices are marginalized or banned from the political arena altogether.
"I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors," she said.
"I want to be able to say what's in my heart, and on my mind, what I think is helpful and useful, without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is a time to silence a voice of dissent".
