Word: conflict
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Martin Luther King saw Black history as the record of suffering, endurance, and change. It was a history of courage and of restraint. Malcolm X presented Black history as the terrible epic of constant war between Black and white. It was a history of conflict. King had accepted Hegel's view of history, namely, that there was a dialectical process of progress and growth through pain. But the dialectical idea for King, the notion of struggle, was also taken over from Gandhi and Thoreau, especially from the latter's essay on Civil Disobedience. King believed in struggle, in a kind...
...attractiveness of the tone in which he spoke that drew his constituency and gave his leadership power and influence among the more militant Blacks and those who were members of store-front Negro churches and isolated political organizations. Malcolm X, seeing Black history as a record of conflict between the races, used a dramatic language to portray a battle in order to get the Blacks to be aware of their grave situation. He thought their very lives were in danger...
...border cleansed of the PLO. Israelis accepted this goal unanimously, or almost. When the Begin government decided to push through to Beirut, opposition made itself heard. What right did Israel have to play policeman for the entire Middle East? For the first time, the Jewish state had initiated a conflict, and the survival of Israel was not even at stake...
...President said, "As President.... I have no longer priority or higher purpose than to reduce the risk and means of conflict. "The new arms control team he said has great distinction and dedication." adding that Secretary of State George Shult "shares my high confidence...
Many parent sponsors of the new Christian academies have a deeply rooted animosity toward public schools. In their view, the schools have adopted a godless philosophy of "secular humanism" by requiring classroom discussion of such touchy subjects as sex education and feminism. Be cause secular humanism is in conflict with the Bible, as these parents see it, it is a sin for them to send their children to public schools. Says Blanche Reinbolt, who has three children at Bridgeport Baptist Academy: "I've seen what certified public school teachers have done for my kids, and it wasn...