Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent so-called debate on "gays in the military" has been bad enough. We have had to witness not just our claims to full citizenship, but our very right to exist, made subject to hearing and referendums. We have heard murderous fantasies, and seen real beatings, count as legitimate contributions to this debate. Now the most outspoken opponent of our rights in this regard--who can hardly bring himself even to condemn the violence that his own pronouncements have licensed in his ranks--will occupy the highest-profile podium that Harvard can afford him, and will there argue once more...
...which relates to my various disappointments with life on this faculty. I have been dissatisfied with appointments patterns here since I came as a students in 1973, but my inclination has always been to stay in a battle and fight, rather than avoid the war by changing my citizenship. Flight from strife is a luxury to which only those who are older, with more battle scars, are entitled. Professor Christopher Edley...
Brain Trelstad '91, the founder of Harvard's green Cup, presented a poster and said he will continue his efforts in citizenship trainings, focusing on strategies for more effective environmental advocacy at the state and local level...
Perhaps these students seek the same sort of notoriety that Henry David Thoreau obtained after refusing to pay his taxes. Instead of attempting to change the political system from within society, he effectively gave up his citizenship in a protest against that system. Ironically, the piece he wrote during his subsequent term in jail, "Civil Disobedience," quotes the well known "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" passage of the New Testament. What is most peculiar here is that the principals of the HRAC have not given up their "citizenship" in the HRRC, though they refuse to render unto...
...Cambridge Organization of Portuguese Americans (COPA) is a social service group which offers classes in English as a second language and citizenship application preparation...