Word: outspokenness
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State Senator Carolyn Walker, an outspoken black legislator, says, "It's sad to say this state is racist, and I keep saying we are not. But when you turn down a holiday that deals with honoring civil and human rights, the numbers show...
Bush has also failed so far to answer effectively the antiwar critics who are becoming more outspoken: demonstrators hoisting placards reading NO BLOOD FOR OIL now turn up at nearly every presidential appearance around the country...
...liberals who had hoped to retire the Senate's most outspoken reactionary, the result was a harsh disappointment. Gantt in early fall appeared to capture the initiative. A former mayor of Charlotte and a successful architect, Gantt, 47, presented what he called a "noble agenda." It amounted to a genteel strain of liberalism emphasizing improved education, health care and environmental measures. He rarely used the terms black or African American and refused to call Helms racist. Instead, he labeled Helms "divisive," a euphemism Gantt hoped would deflect polarization along racial lines...
...wives of the Prophet Muhammad were vibrant, outspoken women. His first, Khadija, ran a prosperous trading business and at one point was Muhammad's employer. A'isha, the Prophet's favorite, was at various times a judge, a political activist and a warrior. Among Muhammad's 11 other wives and concubines were a leatherworker, an imam and an advocate of the downtrodden, revered in her day as the "Mother of the Poor...
Though Japanese women are among the best-educated women in the world, they are, by Western standards, second-class citizens in their own country. Traditional values discourage women from appearing outspoken or independent- minded and demoralize those who try to climb the political or business hierarchies. Only one-fourth of major Japanese corporations have any women at all in the middle-management or higher ranks. In government, women constitute less than 1% of management-level bureaucrats and about 6% of the 764 Diet members. The average woman's annual income amounts to only half that...