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...become a whistle-blower. Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped a town triumph over a multimillion-dollar corporate polluter...
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino sent a letter to the Harvard University Civil Rights Project last week contesting the results of a study it released in April, which found that African Americans and Hispanics do not feel welcome in Metro Boston...
...letter to the Harvard Civil Rights Project, Menino expressed concerns with the findings of the study. “In the past decade our city has made great progress in supporting the success of all of Boston’s residents, without regard to their race or ethnic background...
...were a civil servant assigned to the role of executing prisoners, I would object, refusing to carry out my duties, even at the risk of being fired, because they contradict my moral code, which is defined by my religious beliefs. Even if the institution I act within is a civic institution, all of my actions are nevertheless subject to morality. I may not agree with Pope Benedict’s stance on homosexual marriage, but to say that it isn’t the Church’s business to call people to action on such a thing is completely...
...political conversation and presents a false dichotomy that posits conservatism as congruent with faith and progressivism as antithetical. What a sad fate for the progressive political and theological tradition that has not been the most prolific, but has been at times quite powerful, most recently in the short Civil Rights Era of the 1950s and 1960s...