Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sermon Sunday was James 1: 22, "But be doers of the Word, not hearers only," and your Essay was apropos. However, you say doers are produced by families, schools, colleges and corporations. Are none produced by churches? Has religion lost all its power and creativity? Has the church become irrelevant, or does our culture only feel that it has? Maybe the omission of Father Groppi and Martin Luther King Jr. reveals more an editor's prejudice than the actual situation. (THE REV.) ELTON W. BROWN Pastor...
...made me very sad to see Tommie Smith and John Carlos making their demonstration for Black Power. Winning the gold and bronze medals were great personal achievements, and I am sure that any Negroes watching were proud. But was it necessary to degrade the otherwise moving ceremonies? I think there are many South African Negroes who could tell these men things that would make them appreciate their freedom-yes, freedom! I think that Smith and Carlos are only hurting the cause they hold closest to their hearts by alienating white Americans and giving people like George Wallace a chance...
...books by writing in Eugene McCarthy, Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver or Comedian Pat Paulsen. Another tactic is to vote only for congressional and gubernatorial candidates who reflect dissenting views. Among anti-Humphrey Democrats, the hope is that all this will help speed old-line party leaders out of power and permit insurgents to take over...
...front of City Hall, 2,000 picketing policemen yelled "Blue power!" and carried signs exhorting "Dump Lindsay" and "We Want Daley." Hundreds more paraded in front of 20 of the city's 79 precinct stations. Until their union ended the practice at week's end, as many as 3,000 men, one-fifth of the force scheduled for duty, reported "sick" each day with a fictitious strain of Asian flu. Cops on duty watched benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly...
...people, particularly to the blacks who felt victimized by an impacted, intransigent white bureaucracy. In practice, however, it met a multitude of small problems and one gigantic roadblock: the United Federation of Teachers, the nation's largest union local (55,000 members). After years of struggling for power, the union felt endangered. Not only would decentralization break up the school system, many teachers reasoned, it would also break up the union, which would have to negotiate with 33 local school boards. To many teachers and indeed to many members of other unions, the Negroes' demand for community control...