Word: oppressor
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...Israel's withdrawing to pre-1967 borders. What about formal recognition of Israel? "Who is more in need of recognition," he asked, "Israel, which has a nuclear arsenal, great power and resources, or the Palestinian people? Which party should be given attention, the hangman or the victim, the oppressor or the oppressed?" He also had no apologies for Hamas' history of attacks directed against innocent Israelis, saying it was a matter of self-defense. (Watch TIME's video "Protesting Gaza, Carefully, in the West Bank...
...been on a triumphant tour and students were in favor of him… he was a romantic hero to the students I knew.” Willard Emery, Jr. ’59 agreed, saying that “Batista was seen as a corrupt oppressor of the Cuban people and Fidel Castro was seen as coming from the mountains as a liberator.” Studying government at the time, Jonathan S. Barker ’59 said he left the speech with positive reactions. “He stood out as revolutionary in the context of Harvard?...
...older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. Pygmy's host family treats America as this place where everything is perfect. But Pygmy is trained to treat America as that bully, the oppressor, the evil idiot. Eventually beyond both of those stages you break into accepting your parents as human beings who are not perfect but who love you and are really doing the very best they can. Pygmy breaks through to recognizing these evil bullies as being loving people who don't know everything...
...Nobel committee is trying to nudge history a bit itself. There is a bitterness among black South Africans that Mandela has to share the award with De Klerk. The President may be the man who freed Mandela, but to most blacks his is still the face of the oppressor, the leader of the South African Defense Force, which only last week staged a raid against alleged African terrorists in the Transkei that killed five youths. Mandela has frequently derided De Klerk as a man who ''talks peace while making war,'' accusing him of being responsible -- directly or indirectly...
...celebrates his 90th birthday next week, Nelson Mandela has made enough trouble for several lifetimes. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite white and black, oppressor and oppressed, in a way that had never been done before. In the 1990s I worked with Mandela for almost two years on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. After all that time spent in his company, I felt a terrible sense of withdrawal when the book was done; it was like the sun going out of one's life. We have seen each other occasionally over...