Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eventual answer, however, lies not in palliating deprivation but in enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty. Better medical care for poor children and early educational programs like Head Start, followed through with continuing vocational training, cultural enrichment, and ultimate employment, would grant a meaningful role in the mainstream of American life to all citizens. Such an attack would in the long run prove a sound investment, in lives as well as dollars, for a society with both the conscience and creative resources to hold out for all its people...
...more blocks for the same treatment. "Some day I knew I was going to see my Maker," said McDonough, a devout Roman Catholic, "and he would say: 'You knew what was going on, what did you do about it?' I knew I'd better have an answer...
...remain outside the civil rights movement, often by choice. The small army of suburbanites that descended on New York City's ghetto districts one recent weekend, brooms and paintbrushes in hand, left most of their neighbors at home in various degrees of disinterest. "Volunteerism is not any great answer," says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans. "The suburbanites who go into the slum have contact, but they probably need it the least. The ones who need it are the ones who stayed home...
...some of her guests have indicted her assemblies as a superficial attack on the race problem. She accepts the charge. "Of course they are," she says. "But we'll never have anything if we don't begin. There is no big overall effort that can bring the answer-it's a lot of little efforts by lots of people...
...some Negroes--particularly for those imbued with an intense black racialist outlook--the answer to these perplexing questions is, unfortunately, rather easy. Thus white police brutality against blacks in Harlem and Mississippi and in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia should constitute the contemporaneous yardstick for the historical delimitation of the Black Experience. With this yardstick, therefore, it would be unthinkable if not treasonable to use the Haitian political experience as an historical example of something relevant and meaningful to the overall Black Experience. Instead, one would have to turn to an historical event like the slave trade to the Western...