Word: ku
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...wasn't a surrender," says Greaves, "just a retreat to safer ground." The resolution, which stands, declares homosexuality to be "incompatible with the standards to which this community subscribes." That apparently makes Cobb County, where the lynching of a Jewish man in 1915 sparked a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the only government jurisdiction in America to declare homosexuals officially unwelcome. Says the Rev. Charles Scott May of St. James' Episcopal Church in Marietta: "People are feeling insecure. The world is changing. They're confronted with different cultures and personal values, and it scares the hell out of them...
...Cayhall, in his late 60s, is a onetime Ku Klux Klan bomber convicted in his third trial of blowing up the law office of a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1967 and of maiming the lawyer and killing his two small sons. All that can be said in favor of Cayhall is that he shows a certain gritty courage as his execution approaches and that he regrets the death of the two boys and of a black man he killed in a rage years before. He was raised in a K.K.K. family, however, participated in several lynchings, and still believes...
...just that year, when Provost Jerry R. Green suggested that speech has its limits--and that he would "not sit idly by" if the Ku Klux Klan were marching through Harvard Yard--his words were called "menacing" by a prominent Law School professor...
...menace," Green suggested that free speech has its limits. "I can't tell you that if things got really out of hand, I wouldn't say, listen, what you're saying is really disruptive and I'd like you to stop," Green said at the time. "If the Ku Klux Klan were marching through Harvard Yard, I wouldn't sit idly...
...example, take affirmative action. There are many rational arguments against it; those arguments are rational no matter who says them. But I would look very differently on those same arguments if they were presented by a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan rather than by Shelby Steele...