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...stressful, hectic, immensely tiring and relatively confined to one track. By contrast, I have been free to pursue my college career to graduation, become a published writer, a portrait photographer, a reasonably accomplished painter, and even a mediocre tennis player. No one in our house has ever been a slave, least...
...tell you and me that we shouldn't care what Gulf does in Angola. And yet, if we stop to think about it. Oakland, California is 3000 miles away, and Angola is only 4000 miles away. What difference should that extra 1000 miles make. The very minute that those slave ships left Africa and sailed to the Western hemisphere, oppression of our people became international in scope...
...true, but they can be said at the wrong time. Now I know when to say certain things." Thereupon the former champion proceeded to say certain things about his financial expectations for a rematch with his successor, Joe Frazier: "Frazier and I must be paid. The slave days are over. We want $6,000,000 each. But I guess we might come down a million...
Thus, what I thought was perhaps a hopeful movement in higher education seems to be somewhat in disarray. Many of the programs have fallen apart, usually because the design initially was such that they couldn't do anything but fall apart. It's like the whole notion of a slave. People would say you're a slave because you can't be anything else, and, of course, you can't be anything else since you're only fit to be a slave. It's the same sort of cyclical thing with black studies. They say, "Well, you know, you didn...
...splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor to the freed people"; Maria Mitchell, who discovered a new comet in 1847; Belva Lockwood, activist lawyer and candidate for President on an equal-rights platform in 1884. In analyzing the bias that has ignored such figures...