Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those for whom they would have us believe they fight, i.e.. Black people, Shannon Hall may come to mean that those of us who have been forced into politics because of our concern for injustice will learn to use the tools of that science well enough to accomplish our goals and thus to escape the ignominy of serving as scapegoats in a battle of far right and extreme left. I, for one, feel that we can no longer afford the luxury of saying "a plague on both your houses." but instead must take affirmative action...
...last chapter, appropriately entitled "A Summing Up." the authors attempt to accomplish in five pages what they have not done in the previous 381-that is, to explain Kennedy. This quickie-analysis, in which the authors announce that Kennedy "was a radical and a revolutionary." does not help. The authors might declare what Kennedy was like, but they fail to show what he was like...
...become assimilated, they assume that " 'we have arrived; therefore America has arrived.' " This fallacy, Rubenstein goes on to say, "recapitulates a tragic error-the identification of the American dream with present reality. And this, of course, is precisely what the myth of peaceful progress is intended to accomplish. The characterization of America as a peacefully self-transforming system leaves no room for violent protest. Eden is not Eden unless he who rebels is an original sinner...
...conceivably frighten a jury into releasing Bobby, they will also alienate potential support in Americans at large. This support is the only real safeguard against wholesale political repression. If the New Left should have learned anything in its short history. it is not to rely on liberal politicians to accomplish its ends. Without a general improvement of Americans political consciousness, politicians will continue to use unrest to their own ends. Small groups using pressure tactics to end the war are engaging in the same sort of power play that today's politicians...
...Homosexual. These homophile organizations, composed of both homosexuals and heterosexuals, are working toward the acceptance by society of homosexuality as a mode of self-expression no less valued than heterosexuality and toward the establishment in society of the homosexual as a first class citizen. In order to accomplish these objectives, such organizations need the active involvement and cooperation of homosexuals and heterosexuals...