Word: nonviolenter
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The history of Myanmar, as Burma is now called, resonates with melodrama and tragedy. The heroic battle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or...
In fact, the Southern Baptists had plenty of chances to reverse their backward stand on racial issues but passed them by, even though many courageous members of the church and some maverick pastors protested in vain against the policies. In his famous "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" in 1963, Martin...
"Panther" opens with a barrage of news clips showing us documentary footage of racial violence from the '60s. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks, and is silenced by a shot. Malcolm X surfaces with his declaration, "We are nonviolent with anyone who is nonviolent with us. But we are not nonviolent...
"It will seriously erode civil liberties," complains James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. "I think it would be terrible if the legislation passed in this atmosphere." One provision that has angered the bill's opponents would permit the deportation of aliens who donate money to activities sponsored by...
In a break with other federal courts, a judge in Wisconsin struck down a portion of the 1994 federal abortion-clinic-access law. Judge Rudolph Randa said a section of the law that bans nonviolent physical obstruction of clinics is unconstitutional. The ruling is likely to be appealed.