Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stressing white guilt may lead many to shrug off the Report as did presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon. By failing to make it clear that the government does not condone violence, Wilson believes the Report will encourage whites to take the law in their own hands in order to protect themselves. In proof, he points to the many white suburbanites now stockpiling weapons and learning to shoot...
...present laws are not perfect and the new laws being proposed are by no means the ideal answer either. What is called for is a better dialogue between psychiatrists and legal scholars in order to create a realistic, workable, humane and clear set of laws which will truly protect the freedom of an individual (including freedom from the tyranny of actions taken while in the midst of psychosis). What is most important is that we do not forget the individual and his needs in efforts to create a theoretically perfect legal structure. E. Samuel Rofman, M.D. Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Actually, the bill had been in the congressional works for months before King's assassination. Passed by the House last summer as a comparatively toothless measure to protect civil rights workers, the measure acquired its incisors in the Senate, where a Republican-Democratic liberal coalition, improbably abetted by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pushed through the open-housing provision and sent the much expanded package back across Capitol Hill to the House...
...keeping my right up high to protect myself...
...ruling will be to open the way for more and larger class actions. For Eisen, the decision improved chances of regaining his money-almost. The biggest obstacle remaining is that federal rules provide that adequate notice must be given to other members of the class so that they can protect their interests or opt out if they wish...