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the loudest form of patriotism, usually written by people history later names streets after
means To disagree, often publicly, with an official opinion, policy, or majority view — and to say so out loud.
from From Latin dissentire, 'to differ in feeling or opinion,' built from dis- ('apart') and sentire ('to feel, to think'). So at its root, to dissent is literally to feel apart from the crowd — and it shares that sentire with sentiment, sense, and consent (which is feeling together). The word arrived in English in the 15th century, and by the 1600s it had picked up a sharper religious edge, naming the 'Dissenters' who broke from the established Church.
- latin root
- dissentire means to feel apart from others
- supreme court
- dissents have later become majority law
- colored ink
- justices once wrote dissents in distinct ink
- safety valve
- democracies measure health by tolerated disagreement
- jailable
- most authoritarian regimes criminalize it first
pentagon papers — daniel ellsberg leaked classified 1971 vietnam war study to the new york times
rosa parks arrest — montgomery bus boycott in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat
tiananmen square 1989 — chinese students and workers protested for democratic reforms in beijing