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...supposed to cherish love, in a nation filled with hate--a nation where those who preach love are mocked, harrassed or beaten...

Author: By Henry Norr, | Title: "These Are Times for Real Choices" | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

...students we begin by changing our universities, to make the democracy and freedom that they preach realities within their own confines. Student power is more than just a slogan--it represents a serious effort to give new substance to that old Harvard phrase, "general education for a free society." To this end, I am trying to do my small part by running for a place on the Board of Overeeers, and I ask all who believe that students and faculty deserve a voice on Harvard's governing boards to sign the nominating certificates that are circulating today and tomorrow...

Author: By Henry Norr, | Title: "These Are Times for Real Choices" | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

Economy, the 90th Congress is learning to its embarrassment, is easier to preach than to practice. For nearly a year the recalcitrant lawmakers refused to approve the Administration's income tax surcharge until the President agreed to a $6 billion reduction in spending. Last week, faced with the actual task of trimming that much, they encountered formidable resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Painful Cutting | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Dear Lord, Your Chief Servant, the Minister of Church has been led by the whites to preach and teach, "If you're hit on one cheek, turn the other." But Blacks across the nation have adopted the philosophy "If you raise your white hand to hit or misuse me or mine, whoe gonna put out the fire at the fire station...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

...rock." Nothing that has happened to me since equals the power and the glory that I sometimes felt when . . . the church and I were one. Their pain and their joy were mine, and mine were theirs . . . and their cries of "Amen!" and "Hallelujah!" and "Yes, Lord!," "Praise His name!," "Preach it, brother!" sustained and whipped on my solos until we all became equal, wringing wet singing and dancing, in anguish and rejoicing, at the foot of the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: NO MUSIC LIKE THAT MUSIC | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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