Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much easier for others. Bearing in mind that it is no test of citizenship to abide only the man who agrees with us, the reader can test his own allegiance to the First Amendment by computing how much of the anthologized material to follow he is willing to defend. He will, as well, learn which disturbs him the least- the obscenity, the pornography or the politics...
...stupid, you know, we're no ignorant. We realize that the power structure, the racists, the bigots, the pigs, the criminal agents for the demagogic ruling class are the ones who make the contradictions antagonistic by murder and brutality. So it's necessary for us to defend ourselves...
...already know we're black and beautiful and that black people are going to a higher level as human beings to defend themselves and align themselves with other peoples in the same common poverty and oppression...
...board is still in business, insist its members. It can, to be sure, still pin a Communist label on any group, but it cannot name individual members. In fact, the board has become a monument to futility-and to the courts' determination to defend the rights of all individuals, even those who are unpopular...
...federal district court blocked the New York road; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just upheld that decision. Speaking for the court, Judge Leonard Moore stressed the new right of citizens' groups to defend "natural resources, scenic beauty and historical value" of areas threatened with drastic alteration. Such groups, he added, can prove their sincerity by taking on "the burdensome and costly processes of intervention...