Opposition
Since the 1980s, several advocacy and activist pacifist groups have marched annually to protest the presence of U.S. forces and Spanish military equipment at the port of Rota. The demonstration runs along the streets of the town to end at the gates to naval facilities at the resort, where representatives of the groups read proclamations in favor of peace and freedom.
Protests against the base cause some controversy among local residents, polarizing into two positions, in favour and against, as it provides jobs and businesses benefit from money derived from the Spanish and U.S. military.
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Famous quotes containing the word opposition:
“A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.”
—Kimberly Crenshaw (b. 1959)