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...think of a more decent and humane and conscientious and hardworking kind of man," Maskin says...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Green Has Quietly Earned Respect | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

Until the ridiculous and sentimental ending, it's a decent film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flicks We've Already Seen | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

Kozol laments what he sees as a loss of idealism among these "decent-minded, progressive people. "While some of these people travelled to Mississippi to register blacks in the summer of 1964, Kozol says, "today it's their kids, and they don't want them going to school with anyone who might hold them back...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: The World According to Kozol | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...percent of eligible whites registered to vote and 59 percent of eligible African-Americans registered to vote, but only 32 percent of eligible Hispanics registered. This allows national candidates to ignore Hispanic issues. In the 1988 presidential election only 3 percent of those who voted were of Hispanic decent. With these types of statistics it is no wonder that candidates for national office ignore Hispanic concerns...

Author: By Manuel S. Varela, | Title: Searching for a Political Voice | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Some of the Governors used to say they were inferior in mind and all that kind of stuff. If I had ever said anything like that, no decent black person would have ever voted for me, and I wouldn't blame them, because all those things aren't true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of A Former Segregationist: GEORGE WALLACE | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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