Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insulting to African-Americans to assert that use of the term "nigger" is responsible for underdevelopment. Anyone who has spent real time in the "inner-cities" Star describes in such mystical terms, will attest to the seriousness with which many if not most of the residents comport themselves and contemplate ways to improve their lot. I know for a fact that there exist in these "inner-cities" scores of people who have never referred to themselves as "niggers" and "bitches" and yet they remain poor. What would Star say to these people...
...remain unequivocally committed to making the dream of peace a reality and assert that Yitzhak Rabin did not die in vain. May we all see this dream realized speedily and in our day. May his memory be blessed. --Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Coordinating Council
Although the Million Man March ostensibly addressed a crucial American issue--the dissolution of the the Black family--it was clear from the outset that the rally would be as much an opportunity for Louis Farrakhan to assert his will to power as it would be a forum for collective atonement...
Here comes the bracket. But the issue at hand loomed larger than Minister Farrakhan. But Dr. King himself entered into dialogue with the radical Black separatists of his day. But--and here I am reading between the lines--Professor West needed to assert that despite his Harvard chair, he is a common man, a common Black man, just one in a million...
President Clinton campaigned in 1992 promising to assert American leadership in the world's flailing efforts to stem the violence in Bosnia. For almost three years those words amounted to little more than empty gestures and broken promises...