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...discrimination, have made impressive strides, certainly on this campus. In seeking to secure their states, both groups recently sought either directly as in the PLO instance, or indirectly, as in the GSA case--to silence their critics. Neither, it seems, has learned a fundamental lesson that groups who preach tolerance cannot be in-tolerant towards opposing views without inviting a dangerous--and intolerant backlash...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Question of Tolerance | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...hope that Richard Pryor [March 29] is not "over the drugs" to the extent that he will no longer talk about them in his comedy routine. Preach, Richard, preach. Use whatever words you choose-but let your message be clear: Drugs do destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1982 | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...Preach, nigger, preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pryor's Back ? Twice as Funny | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...Salvador. Mexico has offered to act as an intermediary in the negotiations. But Mexico's motives and credibility are questionable. Privately, Mexican leaders admit that they are fearful of a Red tide sweeping through the countries to the south and spilling over their own borders. Publicly, however, they preach tolerance toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror, Right and Left | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...Poland, then surely one should favor American action to end its own repression. Indeed, it seems to us that cleaning our own hands will make us much more effective at pressuring others. If our allies and the non-aligned nations see us practicing in El Salvador what we preach in Poland, then they may summon the courage to back our efforts elsewhere. At the very least, we would rob the Soviets of their most powerful--and most correct--propaganda weapon: that we are often as bad as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clean Our Own Hands, Too | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

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