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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Syracuse Coach Jesse Dwyer put it concisely.

Author: By John Zilcoksy, | Title: Netwomen Pick and Peel Orangewomen, Secure Grasp on East's Number One Spot | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

ON THURSDAY April 4. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson drew 5000 Harvard students and others to the Yard, exhorting them to choose the moral high road on the issue of apartheid, to shun rationalization and let their emotions dictate the terms for dealing with South Africa's parish regime. The...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Take the Moral High Road | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

And Reynolds also explained why Jackson avoided any direct challenge to Walter F. Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Convention, despite the latter's fear that Jackson might try to split the party. As Reynolds put it, "Jesse just took the high road" on such political issues.

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Take the Moral High Road | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

More recently, Jackson embraced the impoverished farmers of the nation during a tour through the Midwest. And he boasted a new alliance between farmers and the poor during his Harvard speech. "We marched all night long with farmers, and farmers by the thousands marched behind Jesse Jackson in $80,000...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Take the Moral High Road | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

Nor is this commitment something that Baldwin tosses off to make a living Baldwin's work bespeaks a conviction that goes beyond even Cleaver's words, as brilliant is those are. Indeed, Cleaver's writings now seem invalid, not because the sentiments expressed in Soul On Ice have become irrelevant...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Tiger and the Pussycat | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

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