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...found your article on the Italian-American Civil Rights League [April 5] an insult to all our people. You portray our defensive organizations as fronts for "La Cosa Nostra" but ignore "La Causa Nostra" (Our Cause). We are sick of being discriminated against, stigmatized, degraded and oppressed in this country, sick of being called Mafiosi, greasers, dumb dagos, guineas and wops. We will not be scapegoats of the WASP gangster establishment, which sees a cure-all for Yankee problems in the persecution of Italian-Americans...
...abuse was justified. The disturbance of the service, in effect, was the fault of the minister for inciting the congregation. ( Jackson us, State. 1918 ) In Gaddis us. State (1920) the Supreme Court of Nebraska held that certain interruptions of a religious service, even in the absence of personal insult, did not amount to a disturbance...
...seems to me an insult to all of the young American men who have bravely and not always willingly fought in our armed forces to have Cassius Clay's picture on the cover of TIME. As the mother of two draft-age young men, it makes me sick to my stomach...
Many of those who are repulsed by the war in Vietnam and who demand an immediate withdrawal of all U. S. troops regard the "Counter Teach-In" as a challenge and insult to the anti-war peace forces of this community. Yet we do not feel that the way to further our cause is to prevent the South Vietnamese "ambassador" from speaking. To do so will only reinforce stereotypes of "crazy radicals." Yet silence tonight will be constued by the administration as support for its illegal and immoral...
...Both in school and in the community, I would run into various instances of racism," Jenkins said. "Most people would just insult me verbally, but there were a couple of times that my life was threatened...