Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney: My position is quite clear. The Republican Party has made its decision on the platform and the candidates. I accept these decisions. I accept them, but I don't endorse them...
None of these actions is specifically nationalistic, and most Harvard Negroes find it hard to follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...
...power--though they are learning to. And they are not so independent as they would have whites believe, though they are becoming more so. One student explained that he had spent the first 18 years of his life trying to be such a "good Negro" that whites would accept him. This pattern is hard to break, and the dream of entering the "mainstream" is hard to give up--particularly when one is at Harvard and the dream seems at times attainable...
Moses finishes by asking the delegation to accept the Green proposal as their minimal demand. The delegates respond with a unanimous...
Martin Luther Kind and Ella Baker, MFDP Washington staff member, clash violently over the issue. The delegation must accept the compromise, says King, to lessen "the long suffering and deep-seated frustration of the Negro people." "We must reject it," says Miss Baker, "to condemn the massive political pressure exerted by the administration...