Word: inward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Passover impels us to look outward, at social conditions and how they must change. At the same time, Passover also asks us to look inward. "In each and every generation, we must try to experience personally the Exodus from Egypt"--so we have said as the holiday began. To experience the Exodus is to know what suffering and deprivation are, to understand that autonomy--not domination--is the true opposite of slavery. Retelling the Exodus helps us to recapture sensitivities which we may not have learned from our own experience...
...felt kind of hurt," Mancuso says of last year's controversy. "When you're committed to something and people react to it, you draw inward...
Lowry said that Blacks must also look inward to promote economic justice and inspire self-esteem among the community...
...Jackson problem is not so much a problem as an omen. Those who voted for Jackson we're voting for what Jackson was saying and what other Democrats were not. They were voting for his constant reminder to look inward, to look at our cities, our children, our education--to look and be appalled. They were voting because he was saying what needed to be said when no one else would...