Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...searching voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. rang out with those memorable words intoning his dream and his hope, "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal...
...Freedom is the right to share, share fully and equally in American society--to vote, to hold a job, to enter a public place, to go to school. It is the right to be treated in every part of our national life as a person equal in dignity and promise to all others...
What we hear today in Boston and Chicago and Detroit and Louisville and Washington is a plea to an outdated sentiment and an appeal to ignorance. We hear politicians saying along with the rabble and the hatemongers that to enforce rules which would provide quality education, quality housing, equal employment and social justice would be to punish the white people of America. The deep-down prejudices of too many people are being dragged to the surface and in the process submerging rational consideration and thought and understanding. What we face today is not only the same fight we have been...
...other hand, Phyllis Keller, equal employment officer for the Faculty, defended the report's findings, saying the proportion of newly-hired women and minorities has been much greater than their proportion in the applicant pool...
...course, I do not expect the Quad Houses' stock to soar immediately with the change to three-year Houses. But the elimination of this important difference seems necessary (though not sufficient) to giving these houses equal status in the eyes of students. Again, this does not render illegitimate the preferences of some students for the four-year House concept; it merely recognizes the fact that there are not enough such students to make viable the current diversity of options. Sophomores preferring the current Quad model are out-numbered by those whose preferences are violated through assignment to the Quad...