Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encouraging the faculty, Freedman, the former president of the University of Iowa, has made a point of naming scholars to the school's board of trustees. And in a well-publicized speech, Freedman criticized the Dartmouth Review for representing values antithetical to Dartmouth...
Last Thursday Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner delivered the keynote speech of the conference, which is sponsored jointly by Harvard, Radcliffe and the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
...happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation." Those opening words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s landmark "I Have a Dream" speech have proved prescient. Last week King's followers -- including Democratic Presidential Nominee Michael Dukakis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson -- marked the 25th anniversary of the speech by retracing the 1963 March on Washington...
...well as the state supreme court. Both found the bill unconstitutional: the landmark 1943 U.S. Supreme Court decision West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette held that requiring a student to recite the pledge under the threat of expulsion violated the Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech and worship...
...seven years in California's federal penitentiary at Lompoc is a grave injustice, and he has a powerful ally. The San Francisco Chronicle has joined Martin in a lawsuit charging that federal prison officials are unfairly attempting to silence him for exercising his First Amendment rights to free speech...