Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visiting lecturer Vincent S. R. Brandt, who presently teaches one of the three course, says that "there is a political question involved" in the still unfilled chair. He says, "General feeling was that it was awkward to take the money and appoint an activist [against the Korean government], but on the other hand it was not in Harvard's interest to appoint an apologist for the South Korean government...
...black winner, she sighed, "It's hard to come up with fresh answers to a question that doesn't really mean anything." Furthermore, she said, "don't expect me to favor every black cause that comes along." Black leaders enthusiastically favored her victory. Said Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson: "Vanessa did for the Miss America Pageant what Jackie Robinson did for the Dodgers...
...mass of low- and moderate-income citizens. ACORN, a national organization of the poor, protested at the 1980 Democratic National Convention for a quota of one-third of delegates to be low- and moderate-income, similar to the 50 per cent quota for women. A commission headed by Black activist and Congressman Michey Leland recommended the idea to the Democratic National Committee, which rejected it in favor of another proposal that about one-third of delegates be party officials--effectively closing off the party instead of opening...
...sentence could be life imprisonment. The board of supervisors and Feinstein have endorsed Wahl's proposal. Said Feinstein recently: "The wounds are still very, very fresh." Harry Britt, the man named in 1978 to fill Milk's vacant seat on the board and like Milk a gay activist, said, "The legal system broke down in San Francisco. The federal law is designed to deal with situations where local law enforcement failed on a question of basic values." But Deputy Mayor Rotea Gilford opposes the idea. Said he: "Dan White was tried. A number of people disagree with...
...tension, many in the peace movement insist that they are not anti-American. "The U.S. soldiers here don't understand that we are not against them personally," insists one activist. "We are against their missiles. We are against the militarization they represent. But we mean none of this as a personal attack." Says Jo Leinen, head of Federal Citizens' Initiatives Association, a nationwide umbrella group involved in the protests: "[Our movement] is part of a German emancipation. There was a war, we were occupied, and we want to liberate ourselves. Now our campaign is against missiles. There...