Word: resistance
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Faludi: I also like to point out that despite all these efforts to turn women into victims, women did resist -- by not buying the clothes or rushing out to get married at 18, or by not becoming "neotraditionalists...
...While they wanted to resist cultural imperialism, they saw that much of their own culture was oppressive," she said...
...offensive of the evening. "Woman's nature is to submit and to find comfort in a man," Muhammad stated, and further asserted that "the Black woman is the field of the Black man. If the Black man would be what God made him to be, Black women wouldn't resist...
...housemate Frank Aller, another Rhodes scholar, from Spokane, Wash., had come to a decision. He would resist the draft. He would become a fugitive from his own country. Clinton and Aller talked endlessly about the choices that were closing in on them. The conversations were urgent and anguished -- and by no means theoretical. Toward the end of 1969, the number of Americans killed in Vietnam climbed past...
...conscience and also a surprising exercise of precocious political calculation. Clinton said that he opposed the draft and the war and that he was "in great sympathy with those who are not willing to fight, kill and maybe die for their country . . . right or wrong." But he would not resist the draft. He would "accept the draft in spite of my beliefs for one reason: to maintain my political viability within the system...