Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live, a world which by anyone's estimate not the best that is could be. But those of us who are working to enrich life in eastern Massachusetts do not deserve to be reckoned less than those who are protesting in soliders with Black South Africans, of going to jail for Central Americans, writing letters for Russian Jews, or collecting for the hungry in Europia. We've as "fired up" as they are we're just not . Richard B Mintz...
ACTIVISM SOMETIMES produces jail sentences. But it can also create an awareness of issues, and produce critical rethinking by all members of the community. As members of amintellectual community like Harvard, we can and must support critical analysis of issues. The ambivalence toward recent protests at Harvard advances no rethinking and contributes nothing but grandstanding to the debate...
...terms with the very un-Christian effects of that policy. Consequently, Black and white clergymen alike have often been outspoken opponents of apartheid. One white anti-apartheid activist notes, "We have a very sound saying here in South Africa. We say a Christian here is either going to jail, or going to hell...
...UNDERSCORE the urgency of the currer situation, much of Freedom Rising presents the bleak side of South Africa. It is the story of the hundreds in South Africa who are going to jail, and of the sophisticated police state that puts them there. Swanson's personal abhorrence of apartheid permeates every page of the book; in fact, the tone is often unnecessarily moralistic since his facts speak clearly enough in opposition to the current regime...
Conditions in our society brought Goetz to the edge. If anyone deserves to sit in jail, it is the politicians and judges who let crime get out of hand. Larry Zawilenski Chicago Seething South Africa...