Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long our social system has taught men to get what they want through character and ability, and women to get what they want by pleasing men. Second-class citizenship for women is perpetuated by labeling the resultant, conditioned traits as "masculine" and "feminine" and proceeding to worship them...
...means of reform in the existing system. "This is a new form of citizenship," Nader says. At heart, he is teaching the oldest form of citizenship: that one man, simply by determined complaining, can still accomplish a great deal in a free society...
...federal government, he writes, it should encourage local government to reorganize by "restoring its fiscal vitality." He recommends federal revenue sharing to make urban citizenship as financially painless as possible. His answer is only a partial one. Fiscal vitality alone would not overcome the reluctance of the suburbs to associate with the central cities. Self-interest, self-satisfaction and fear would keep them detached. They wish not only to protect themselves from crime and urban poverty but also to reduce their involvement with these problems...
...penned in 1928 by W.E.B. DuBois as an ode to his ancestral home and to a small, typically New England town of Great Barrington. At the time of his death the great intellectual probably would not have been welcome in Great Barrington, for he had renounced his American citizenship, joined the Communist Party, and gone off to Africa. Yer, although DuBois turned away from the United States in disgust, he never spoke of his birthplace without a warm vibrancy in his voice and a soft look in his eyes. Last Saturday William Edward Barghardt DuBois, scholar, sociologist, historian, editor, publisher...
Hoffman eloquently described desegregation as "a very small down payment on an investment whose dividends are good citizenship, justice and the welfare of the nation." The judge proudly notes that his words were quoted "around the world-even in the English language newspaper in Jerusalem...