Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assume power to censor your words, you may someday assume power to censor mine. Professional civil libertarians (I include myself among them) tend to be liberals; they consider race and sex discrimination immoral and not just inexpedient (a waste of human resources), so they are loath to defend the moral right to harbor prejudices. Yet, if you value free speech, censorship is as immoral as bigotry...
...this newspaper has received much reader mail from outraged Southerners. I expected that they would be incensed with my portrayal of Dixie, and looked forward to their responses and criticism. I was disappointed by the weakness of their counter-arguments, but then again, it's pretty challenging to defend hundreds of years of inhuman slavery and several generations of equally abhorrent Jim Crow apartheid...
When the student body rallied for the autonomy of Phillips Brooks House, the dean acted practically by keeping to his schedule rather than defend his appointment of Judith Kidd as Public Service czar to the protesters outside of his University Hall offices. And when, more recently, an attempted rape on Linden Street inspired students to decry the dearth of campus security, Lewis suggested what to him must have seemed a practical solution: women should not walk alone at night...
...July 11 Foster again complained to Lisa about the travel office, which he was convinced would lead to congressional hearings. He again said he intended to resign. Lisa suggested he write down what was bothering him. He should take the offensive, she said, and defend himself...
TAIPEI: Taiwanese troops have reportedly taken up positions on outlying islands to defend against a possible beach assault as China prepares to begin another round of war games. The China Times reported today that preparations are being made on the Chu islands as China is expected to take advantage of Monday's high tide to practice beach landings on nearby Pingtan Island. About 300 people, more than half the population of the islands, and hundreds of fishing boats have fled the area. Because of bad weather, the eight- day exercises will be smaller in scale than the live-fire...