Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, with the furies of both sides boiling high, Ironsi decided to venture out of his Lagos sanctuary to preach national togetherness at a meeting of Northern political bosses in the nearby regional capital of Ibadan. Hardly had he arrived in the sprawling shantytown city than he was taken prisoner by rebellious troops, while other in surrectionists grabbed control of the Lagos airport and the important marketing town of Abeokuta. The capital itself was quiet, although cable and phone connections were cut and strict censorship imposed. Government radio assured the nation that "the situation is under control." There...
...Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement's most eloquent apostle of nonviolence, and Floyd McKissick, an impassioned advocate of "Black power," linked arms last week at a Chicago rally to preach comity within the Negro movement. Both leaders agreed that the Negro could best achieve his social and economic goals by peaceable means. "Our power," declared King, "does not reside in Molotov cocktails, rifles, knives and bricks." And yet, as in Harlem in 1964 and in Watts last year, the hatred and frustration of the Negro slum dweller erupted in an insensate wave of violence that filled Chicago...
...responsible kind. "The slogan 'Black power' is misleading," said James Farmer, CORE'S former national director. "The program needs much refinement and understanding of the subtleties. It should not be antiwhite; it should not be black racist; it should not be assertively violent. But it should preach self-respect and group pride to those who have been without respect and pride, while heralding a historic, democratic American doctrine: that those who are hurting must develop political power to remove their own hurt. The subtlety lies in tempering power with compassion and humanity. If the slogan 'Black...
...Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church, "is that we priests should only preach the Gospel and stay closed in our sacristies. This is simply a meaningless slogan that is picked up and repeated by enemies of the church when they fear the voice of truth and the voice...
...failing to pay tax on" less than half an ounce of marihuana. The Bureau will welcome a test case because it believes the drug to be an unequivocal menace and resents propaganda to the contrary. Leary will be happy to have at last a national forum in order to preach to all his Less-Harmful-Than-Alcohol doctrine about the very same stuff...