Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacifist stand prompted him to seek nonviolent means of direct political action for the Negro's civil rights. He began to read Gandhi. Distressed by the lack of progress in integration, he and his friends decided to form a nonviolent organization that would preach civil disobedience. That was the beginning of CORE and also the beginning of the sit-ins. "The Movement really began in the early 'forties. Up until that time, all blacks participated in segregation at least passively. It was important that we should not lend ourselves to the evil we condemned...
...declared the nation's objective to be the achievement of a biracial society. The greatest obstacle to that goal is the tense mood of fear, mistrust and hatred that corrodes race relations. Although a majority of blacks still subscribes to the ideal of integration, the increasingly vocal militants preach an American apartheid that would ultimately isolate Negroes from the mainstream of American life (see box p. 23). That such a solution would not only be accepted but welcomed by a great many whites is all too evident. Any meaningful integration of blacks must involve moving more and more...
Beyond that, the Administration, including the President himself, must constantly preach the values of conservation and the need for a balanced environment. Nixon should adopt immediately the recommendation of one of his task forces that he appoint a special assistant for environmental affairs. Alternatively, he might accept Stewart Udall's suggestion for a Council of Environmental Advisers, which would have the same influence over the environment as the Council of Economic Advisers has over the economy. Above all, ecology?the interrelationship of all living things within the framework of the environment?must become as familiar a word to bureaucrats...
...article implies that Arab governments cannot oppose the will of their peoples. This smacks of sophistry since the will in question is largely a product of the 100% government-controlled news media. Were these media to preach peace rather than hate, it is highly probable that public opinion would change...
...call "the hype." Says Ed Denson, Country Joe's manager: "When these people talk about revolution, they mean protest, but they found that the word revolution shocks. The MC5 are taking a protest one step further to get attention." The MC5 clearly practice much of what they preach, as is shown by their string of arrests on charges of noisemaking, obscenity and possession of marijuana. Just as clearly, even their most aggressive songs are only that-songs, not bricks or guns. It may be that the first victim of their metaphorical revolution will be the overused word revolution itself...