Word: mistrust
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...Pusey appointed Cox, an expert in labor management negotiations, to handle the talks with OBU. The agreement which was reached was a compromise, but it marks a considerable stride forward in Harvard's hiring practices. Yet the punishments meted out to the black students leaves a wide area of mistrust and bad feeling between blacks and the administration. This area of mistrust could result in new takeovers next year, for blacks feel they cannot trust a University which acceeds to a large extent to their demands and then punishes them for militant, yet non-violent tactics which won these demands...
Finally, in the mind of one who actually believed it, the happy-matron-career woman notion promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and mistrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...
...anti-Nazi who fled Germany in 1933, Brandt said that, while West Germany has become a respected and envied member of the family of nations, "we must not forget that the wounds of war have not vanished everywhere, that mistrust has not vanished everywhere, but indeed can be evoked in some people at the slightest cause." Recalling that the war unleashed by Adolf Hitler cost the lives of "millions of children, women and men of many nations," Brandt said: "We remember them all with reverence. The suffering resulting from the war warns us not to forget the lessons...
...then you see the revolution. There are maybe three thousand people standing around, it is the middle of a city, and people are cavorting nude in the fountain. There is none of the fear of strangers you read about in Soe Rel. none of the avoidance of mistrust, none of the threat of a crowd. People are together. And the "maybe" in your mind turns into a partial...
...threaten whites that they can be replaced by blacks. Thereby you exploit both. But racism goes beyond economic reasons. When people believe in racism they become less than human and they teach their children to be the same way. They become half human. They are filled with fear, mistrust, and hatred. Racism is evil. It should be fought...