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This new enforcement is obviously yet another thinly veiled excuse to oppress Quad residents. That, and the signs prohibiting bicyclists from riding in the Yard. Bicycling from the Quad to, say, Adams House without going through the Yard or riding on sidewalks requires risking death. Not to mention that walking one's bike through the Yard from the gate by the Science Center to the gate near Widener adds a good seven minutes to one's journey, too much for most Harvard students to sacrifice. Most bikers are not kamikazes; surely we can find some way for them to coexist...
...treated unjustly. This resentment simply allows the black community to remain steeped in a bad temper about the state of the country. The politics of revenge is easily given over to conspiracy theories and ideas among members of the black community that "the white man" is trying to oppress them...
...conclusions, but his twisted reasoning and bilious rage. In his written opinions, he begins with premises that no self-respecting black would disagree with, then veers off into a neverland of color-blind philosophizing in which all race-based policies, from Jim Crow laws designed to oppress minorities to affirmative-action measures seeking to assist them, are conflated into one morally and legally pernicious whole. He delights in gratuitously tongue-lashing the majority of blacks who disagree with him on almost every civil rights issue. He heaps scorn on federal judges who have used the bench to enforce and expand...
...makers say Republicans don't care about minorities because we oppose measures which help them fight injustice. In reality we oppose affirmative action not because we want to oppress minorities, but because it is totally at odds with the spirit of the civil rights movement and the idea of a meritocracy...
...have always found solace. Ezekiel explains that the Sodomites' sin was that they had "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness" but did not "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks" (4: 1-2) (which puts even "necklacing " in a new perspective...