Word: creed
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...Harvard requires in all constitutions of student organizations a statement that "Membership in [the] organization shall be open to all students in good standing currently enrolled in Harvard College, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or physical disability...
...activist in the 1952 Defiance Campaign--was sentenced to life in prison. In his statement to the court, Mandela articulated his political philosophy and refused to renounce what he saw as a moral obligation to resist white supremacy by the most effective means available. The statement became his creed, and in the first speech after his release in 1990 (and the first in the collection), he concluded by quoting his own by then well-known remarks...
...cold war, those values were pluralism, freedom of individual opportunity, integration and free speech. The goal of universities, cultural institutions and most journals of scholarship and opinion was to open the American experience -- ipso facto a virtuous and desirable one -- to all comers, regardless of race, creed, color or, later on, gender. American culture was considered so good that no one should be denied a chance at it, and no one should be assumed unable to appreciate or comprehend...
Pearly Whites: But that still doesn't please Tomassoni. The Crimson skated into Hamilton straight out of a game that, in boxing parlance, could have been "Rocky I," with Harvard as Apollo Creed and home Cornell as the Italian Stallion...
Billy Graham expresses beliefs that remain firmly based upon the Bible, yet ^ often sound moderate in a world of Fundamentalist fire. He spoke about his creed with 's Richard N. Ostling...