Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although black economic power is a prerequisite for racial integration--even if every black man was as well off materially as every white--America would still be sick" Jackson said. "The tragedy is that blacks have been perverted into merely the shadows of whites...
...minister stated that black people must exercise their power as consumers in order to create an identity for themselves. He cited the success of his efforts to force the 40 A & P stores in Chicago's black neighborhoods to hire black managers and invest their profit in black banks as proof that blacks could gain tangible advantages from consumer boycott tactics...
...Spanish workman on the run for killing his wife and her lover; he is rescued by the heroine in dramatic circumstances and fondly described as "her miracle, the storm murderer." In Moderate Cantabile, he is a French workman, again mysteriously connected with a recent murder, again with a sinister power over the heroine, who is frequently disturbed by "the silent agony of her loins." In L'Amante Anglaise, he turns up as the woodcutter Alfonso-an Italian this time-who sel dom speaks, lives alone in a hut in the forest, and is thought to know more about...
...about 150 people in the Leverett House dining room. "To replace the rhetoric of liberalism," she told them, "we need a counter-vision with counter-values. Today, the movement on the left offers the only hope. If it fails, if we do not find a way to give power back to people and restore dignity to black people, then there will be horrible days ahead...
...challenge facing America, she added, is the effort by its people to "take over the basic means of production" from the power structure. "We are revolutionaries," she said. "If there is no end to racism, if there is no end to the exploitation of poor people by rich people, we will be violent...