Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...majority of society, is tolerable precisely because words themselves are benign. Speech can encourage positive change but can just as easily evoke our most animalistic tendencies and encourage us to act out of greed, malice and spite. Ultimately, though, we make our own decisions. As responsible and rational human beings we determine when and how we act. Accordingly, when injustice occurs we indict people and not words, phrases or moving pictures...
Wang, currently a graduate student at Harvard, joined four other human rights activists involved in the pro-democracy movement in recalling the events at Tiananmen Square and commenting on the current movement in China...
...Talking about 10 years ago--it's just like yesterday," said Xiao Quiang, executive director for Human Rights in China and a speaker at yesterday's event...
...later in the forum, an audience member from China challenged the human rights activists' vision for modern China...
Wang, currently a graduate student at Harvard, joined four other human rights activists involved in the pro-democracy movement in recalling the events at Tiananmen Square and commenting on the current movement in China...