Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the difficulty of helping hungry people on an individual level all too often leads to a callous unwillingness to deal with them at all. Like this country's president, most of the public seems to hope that the homeless will simply go away, taking their plight with them. At the pizza place in Berkeley, the student clientele greeted the crowd around the trashcan with derisive yells of "Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come...
...breaks my heart to read about the plight of immigrants in Europe [Feb. 6]. Asians and Africans have slaved for centuries to build an affluent society. But all these people get in return for their labors is curses and scorn...
...under no illusions about the popularity it the likely enactment of the policies advocated here, but neither am I under any illusions about the plight of the Black poor. To those who say that there will be no massive federal jobs program. I simply answer that in the absence of such a program, there will be no improvement in the horrible conditions which the Black poor suffer, period...
...That has reinforced complacency concerning the particular and peculiar plight of Black America today," he added...
...significance of Malcolm X's life was his diagnosis of the plight of the Black man in this country. He spoke a truth that many did not wish to hear, and ignited an anger that became hard to contain during violent times of change...