Word: equalling
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...Harvard College and the signatures of President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean Lewis. Female undergraduates receive a diploma with the seals of Harvard University and Radcliffe College and the signatures of Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson. The initial bill proposed in the council to make the diplomas equal did not specify the way in which such equality could be created. The bill was then modified to request that Dean Lewis' signature be on all diplomas while leaving the Radcliffe seal and signature intact on women's diplomas. It seems to me that the idea of equality was lost...
...founders didn't say all Americans are created equal, they didn't say all colonists are created equal.... It was a moral vision meant to apply to the whole world," he said...
Eleanor's positions on civil rights were far in advance of her time: 10 years before the Supreme Court rejected the "separate but equal" doctrine, Eleanor argued that equal facilities were not enough: "The basic fact of segregation, which warps and twists the lives of our Negro population, [is] itself discriminatory...
There were other warps and twists that caught her eye. Long before the contemporary women's movement provided ideological arguments for women's rights, Eleanor instinctively challenged institutions that failed to provide equal opportunity for women. As First Lady, she held more than 300 press conferences that she cleverly restricted to women journalists, knowing that news organizations all over the country would be forced to hire their first female reporter in order to have access to the First Lady...
...world: "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared...