Word: governed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outs too," she said, comparing the oppression of women with the oppression of blacks. "They are suffering from the same myths: a childlike nature, smallerbrains, naturally passive, that they lack objectivity (which a few Harvard Law professors are still saying), and that they lack the ability to govern themselves, God forbid to govern white...
What might it decide about? Whether and how to act upon the common interests we mentioned earlier. In addition, we might decide in the union to set up our own disciplinary committee to govern ourselves. But that would come later. The union must have strength to act-it must have money, organization, and good communications, and it must be prepared to use what sanctions it does have, such as a class boycott or a tuition strike. It would be useless, though, for the union to be unnecessarily hostile to the Administration and Faculty-it should simply be unequivocal...
...Philip Berrigan should be President of the United States. Here for once is a man who could be trusted with power, who has proved through his life that he has integrity of character and brains to govern. This would be the way out of your abysmal political mess, which makes millions of people unhappy and insecure...
...state law that protects Massachusetts men from combat service in undeclared wars. One year ago today the bill's supporters massed in Gardner Auditorium in the State House to begin to work for the bill's passage. The bill became a prime trial for the people's right to govern themselves, and the book reflects basic liberal hopes and idealism. A jacket blurb quotes George McGovern...
...imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo of the white man's burden, of our smug belief we can govern other people's lives better than they...