Bernie Sanders cred­its protests for ‘elim­i­nat­ing seg­re­ga­tion in Amer­i­ca’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I‑VT) defend­ed the right to protest in a Fri­day video, cred­it­ing non­vi­o­lent protests for much of the progress Amer­i­can soci­ety has made his­tor­i­cal­ly.
Sanders made his stance clear in a post to X amid reports of pro-Pales­tin­ian protests across the coun­try, with some result­ing in on-cam­pus encamp­ments. From the begin­ning of these protests, the sen­a­tor has con­demned anti­se­mit­ic chants and themes as “dis­gust­ing and stu­pid” but also main­tained the stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ing in non­vi­o­lent ways should be left alone.
“I sup­port the First Amend­ment of the Con­sti­tu­tion,” Sanders said before recit­ing it. “Protests and demon­stra­tions have played an enor­mous­ly impor­tant and pos­i­tive role in mod­ern Amer­i­can his­to­ry. With­out protests led by Dr. King and oth­ers, we would not have made progress in elim­i­nat­ing seg­re­ga­tion in Amer­i­ca and com­bat …