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Although CORE has stuck to its non-violent creed while pioneering sit-ins, stand-ins, and other "in" demonstrations, members in Louisiana are often protected by the Deacons, a weapon-carrying Negro group formed for defense purposes. Says Farmer: "If the law enforcement officers of the city, county, and state fail to do their jobs, then people have the constitutional right to defend themselves. We've worked very closely with the Deacons, and though they're separate, it's very comforting to have them around...
...service industries. Others have demonstrated that aggressive (and often expensive) organizing can still win members. Since being kicked out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1957 for Jimmy Hoffa's happy hooliganism, the Teamsters have actually grown from 1,600,000 to 1,760,000. Hoffa's creed is simple: if it breathes, organize it. The Teamsters include hairdressers in Newark, employees at an animal cemetery in Illinois, stewardesses for the Flying Tiger airline and attendants at the San Diego...
...Educated at the Sorbonne and Oxford, a world-famed author and lecturer, a leftward-leaning pillar of England's Establishment, Barbara Ward, 51, acquired at the top the same idealistic bent to which Lyndon Johnson aspired from the bottom. It can best be described as messianic materialism, a creed that renders unabashedly both to Caesar and to conscience...
Leaders of the major civil rights organizations have made nonviolence both a creed and a potent psychological -weapon of their campaign. But few were surprised by last week's eruptions. Many Negro leaders, in fact, had long warned that violence is an inevitable if unwelcome weapon in their struggle. Some of their statements, past and present BAYARD RUSTIN, who planned the 1963 march on Washington: "I think the real cause is that Negro youth-jobless, hopeless-does not feel a part of American society. The major job we have is to find them work, decent housing, education, training...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...