Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday school gospel that he still teaches occasionally at Washington's First Baptist Church, his belief in the perfectibility of man, his deeply moving experience of witnessing Southern whites coming to terms with blacks, and his own triumph in surmounting enormous odds to reach the White House. He has called for the U.S. to "set a standard of morality" and to pursue policies based on "decency and optimism...
Jordan's critique set off a chorus of complaints by black leaders. Joseph Lowery, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, charged sardonically that Carter had somehow "lost his sense of urgency, as if he's more interested in a balanced budget than a balanced diet." Benjamin Hooks, who was inaugurated last week as director of the NAACP, urged Carter to balance the budget by means of a "full economy, generating more jobs, more sales and more money." Said Nancy Jefferson, executive director of Chicago's Midwest Community Council, a black self-help organization: "There were lots...
...There have been all sorts of negotiations-on battleships, on railroad bridges, everywhere. We have followed the Organization of African Unity [O.A.U.] Manifesto on Southern Africa, which says that we must do everything possible to negotiate for a transfer of power from the minority to the majority, and only when this fails should we decide to fight. But everything has failed, all due to the intransigence of Smith. Up to about a year ago, we thought there was a possibility of change. Then we realized that this man was just playing with words. So we have taken up arms...
...that is going to be a problem, and we have the West to thank for that. Long ago I told the Americans that if the West was not careful, it would find itself fighting against black people in southern Africa because, according to the West, the blacks were supporting Communism. Western civilization is based on Christian love. The racists, the fascists in southern Africa are the opposite, but they do what they do in your name, and the black masses begin to consider Western civilization as racist and fascist. Africans have turned to the only people who support their case...
...West must choose between investment and human life. If it chooses human life, let it withdraw its heavy investments that support [the white regimes in] southern Africa. I like to believe the West can salvage what is already half lost. We give the situation in South Africa three years, and then it is bound to explode unless certain changes have taken place. But this is not a case of Communists telling South Africans what to do, or of Marxists telling the people of Zimbabwe they are oppressed. There is no need for that: it is obvious...