Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articulate a fine sociological distinction between Jew and militant black that sheds light on the recent confrontation. The Jew may question the propriety of a law but recognizes its validity. Any discriminatory statute will find the Jew in the forefront of those attempting to change it. He will fight for the rights of all men, for in the refinement of democracy his rights will be better preserved. Yet, there is a firm recognition that should law itself be disrupted, his personal freedoms would be lost...
...Wellford said, and "Mrs. Hamer is now using it as a selling point in winning support for her plan. She's using the generosity of the Harvard community to show her people that there's an alternative to starvation and exodus--to give them a reason to stay and fight...
...almost military bearing contrasts with a career as a conscientious objector that goes back to World War II. "I could not fight against the master race theory of Hitler while we had it here at home." He got a deferment for theological studies, though he made clear his intentions to stay out of the ministry ("My draft board just didn't want to cause anyone any trouble...
...challenges the function of ROTC, anymore than they will give SFAC real power. Rather, they will use their committees to take up a lot of time and eventually try to buy us off. The only way we can get ROTC off campus is by mobilizing the student body to fight for its abolition. We must build a movement that fights for the only just demand--after all it makes little difference to the Vietnamese peasnts, or to the Black people in U.S. ghettos, whether or not ROTC graduates got course credit for their training. It is ROTC's function...
...Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarships be replace, where there is need, by commensurate Harvard scholarships. 58% at BU and 37% at Harvard (memorandum). The ROTC campaign at Harvard, far from being quixotic, is a very important fight against the policies of the U.S. Government around the world, one that would, if successful, have a real, material effect on the US military: "Let it be understood beyond question that there is at present no acceptable alternate source of junior officer leadership if ROTC is driven from the college campus" (memorandum). And it is only in this context that the CEP resolution...