Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't take a Harvard education to change the world, Linda Stout, a social activist and the founder of the Piedmont Peace Project, told a group of about 40 people gathered in Harvard Hall on Saturday...
Singer and activist Pete Seeger will receive the second annual Harvard Arts Medal at this Spring's Arts First '96 festival, the Board of Overseers announced Wednesday...
...civil rights and anti-war activist in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, Seeger was sentenced to jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, according to the Harvard News Office statement...
...hopeful. Education activist Paulo Freire spent decades struggling to give children a voice in his native Brazil. Despite a lifetime of failing to achieve his goals, facing exile and accusations, he remained hopeful for the future of the children of his country. "After all," Freire writes, "without hope there is little we can do. It will be hard to struggle on, and when we fight as hopeless or despairing persons, our struggle will be suicidal." Be hopeful and instill a sense of hope and high expectations in the children around...
...afternoon also featured a presentation by Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese-American civil rights activist...