Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come here to tell about the genocide that's being carried out against the black people in this country. I don't want to have to talk semantics with you. I'm always afraid to talk at colleges where people seem to have more vocabulary than experience. We're talking about revolution and the survival of black people, and they're the same thing." It's really frightening to hear Messiah and feel that it may be the last time that...
...hungry black kids will stay hungry because of the cops. The cops have busted up the Breakfast for Children programs everywhere they've been tried. Black mothers are afraid to let their children cat breakfast because they might be shot...
Continued Roberts: "Another Vietnamese woman, afraid for her own safety, tried to stop the woman from objecting. One soldier kicked the mother and another slapped her up a bit. Haeberle [the photographer] jumped in to take a picture of the group of women. The picture shows the 13-year-old girl, hiding behind her mother, trying to button the top of her pajamas. When they noticed Ron, they left off and turned away as if everything was normal. Then a soldier asked, 'Well, what'll we do with 'em?' 'Kill 'em,' another answered. I heard...
Mandel was surprised that the Justice Department opposed his entry into the U.S., "surprised that the American government is afraid of people who defend Marxist doctrine when many Marxist books are freely sold in the U.S." But he feels he has made some capital out of his rejection. "If I had gone to the U.S.," he says, "I would have addressed audiences of about 100 people." As a result of his rejection, adds Mandel, "I have been interviewed by television, and 40 million Americans will listen to my views...
...afraid I misrepresented my own position ?? the Cambridge Project in talking with Jeff Magalif on Tuesday evening. My fault not his. If members of the Harvard faculties are to participate in re Project in a substantial way. I believe it to be very important that Harvard is represented on whatever Board determines Project policies. If these "representatives" are simply self-appointed individuals, my judgment is that their views will tend to become less influential over a period of time than if they have been appointed to the task, by the President, on the basis of an informal agreement between...