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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
Lance Bass, Musician (1979) |
Gary Bauer, Public Servant (1946) |
Ron Carter, Musician (1937) |
Dick Dale, Musician (1937) |
Andrew Denton, Comedian (1960) |
Maynard Ferguson, Musician (1928) |
Ruth First, Activist (1925) |
Ana Gasteyer, Comedian (1967) |
Paul Gleason, Actor (1944) |
Keith Haring, Artist (1958) |
David Hackworth, Soldier (2005) |
Joseph Joubert, Writer (1824) |