Word: assertional
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...affluence, and it is heightened by the constant, often self-congratulatory talk about that affluence. It is the poverty of the Harlem woman who says, "I'm tired of 49? meat; I want some 89? meat just once." It is the poverty of people who have a refrigerator, assert their right to own a TV set, may genuinely need a car, should visit a dentist. Even if this poverty is not like any earlier poverty or the poverty of much of the rest of the world, it is worth declaring...
N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, Louisville, 1963: "The Negro citizen does not subscribe to violence as a method of securing his rights. But he has come to the point where he is not afraid of violence. He no longer shrinks back. He will assert himself, and if violence comes, so be it." Representative Adam Clayton Powell, at a Black Muslim rally in 1963 in New York: "Anything we get we will have to fight for, to seize for ourselves. We will invade the white man's heaven, the United States." James Foreman, then executive secretary of S.N.C.C., in August...
...morality. "The problem of ambivalence is not peculiar to race. You have to give dominance to the positive in these matters and control the negative. There is a feedback value to all of this. If you do it a sufficient number of times the negative is less likely to assert itself...
...that the purpose of foreign aid is to help nations secure economic and political independence, and then resort to petty blackmail when they assert their independence? If our form of government and our economic system are truly great, we should permit others to test our noble intentions...
...President also became increasingly exasperated by the performance of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Says Schlesinger: "At White House conferences Rusk would sit calmly by, with his Buddhalike face and his half-smile, often leaving it to Bundy or to the President himself to assert the diplomatic interest. He rarely seemed to have strong views as to what should be done beyond continuing what we were already doing, and he rarely argued a position." Kennedy, says Schlesinger, was "impressed by Rusk's capacity to define but grew increasingly depressed by his reluctance to decide...