Word: civil
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Perl-Matanzo said he plans to go to Puerto Rico later this month to engage in civil disobedience at a military base if President Clinton fails to change U.S. policy...
Well, to begin with, the Scopes trial is not the great fable the rather fictional Inherit the Wind made it out to be. The instigators of the trial were not bluenosed know-nothings wanting to persecute some poor teacher for teaching evolution. They were officials of the American Civil Liberties Union so eager for a test case to overturn a new Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution that they promised to pay the expenses of the prosecution! The A.C.L.U. advertised for a volunteer and found one John Scopes, football coach and science teacher, willing to take...
...Panthers who eventually went through a Whittaker Chambers-like conversion that he documented in a memoir, Radical Son (1997)--is a bracing, abrasive Internalist. In Hating Whitey (Spence Publishing; 300 pages; $24.95), Horowitz lays out a vigorous case against what he sees as the failures of a once impressive civil rights leadership. Powerful black figures like Jesse Jackson and Julian Bond, says Horowitz, have morally abdicated. They have, he says, left the articulation of the African-American case to black racists and demagogues (Louis Farrakhan, for example) and to intellectual mediocrities whom the culture at large witlessly honors. Identity politics...
Gary A. Orfield, who is a professor of education and social policy at the Kennedy School, maintains a similar attitude about balancing his outside commitments. He currently serves as court-appointed Special Master in San Francisco's school desegregation court order and testifies in civil rights cases as an expert witness...
...Based on my opinion MIT is now going to be the subject of a civil suit by the estate of Scott Krueger," Burke said...