Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essay comes at a time in history that needs more than ever the articulation of just what it means to be a Christian, 1968. That Christ's law was one of love and not legality is made so evident in the Essay that it must take on a new meaning to all Christians. You have presented a picture of Jesus Christ that removes the image of him as a proverbial prophet of a meaningless message and shows him to be the great man of love-a love that extends out not for simply the people...
...more than 150 bullets. Out into a search light's glare emerged 17-year-old Bobby J. Hutton, the Panthers' treasurer. Retching from the gas, he was hunched over. The police believed he might be armed and said he disregarded a command to halt. The circle of law officers shot him dead...
With a membership of fewer than 150 activists, Oakland's Panthers are far from such feats, although trouble often follows them. Armed Panthers invaded California's state assembly last spring to protest a tough new gun law; Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton, 26, is in jail awaiting trial for killing an Oakland policeman; Chairman Bobby Seale, 31, was convicted last week of illegal possession of weapons, and Cleaver, who has spent 12 of his adult years in prison for narcotics and assault convictions, was being held under guard in a hospital as a parole violator...
...Panthers are undeterred. Cradling shotguns, they ride the streets behind patrol cars, stepping forward, law book in hand, to advise arrested Negroes of their rights. Hatred of law officers is an article of faith, and Oakland's 645 police, only 19 of them Negroes, reciprocate; in the lexicon of Panther "Black Papers," all Oakland cops are pigs...
...five men "can disagree with the law from every platform in the country," Wall said, "but they cannot nullify the law by counselling others to break the law...