Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just as we, in the 60s, learned from theactivities of the civil rights and voterregistration drives and the free speech movement,we have an obligation to pass on our commitmentand our methodology to those that come after us,"McKean said before the discussion...
...many big cities in the late 1960's, Rizzo, often referred to as "America's toughtest cop," was determined to prevent them in Philadelphia. He once told Stokely Carmichael to "choose [his] words carefully" when the revolutionary civil rights leader came to the city to give a speech. He threatened, "I'm tellin' you, Mr. Carmichael, if you cause a riot in this town, I'm going to personally tear you apart. It'll take four orthopedic surgeons a week to put you together...
...speech, sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) as a prelude to this Sunday's March on Washington for abortion rights, Ehrenreich addressed what she said were myths held by anti-abortion activists...
Edmonds began her speech, "Come Down to KewGarden in Lilac Time; It Isn't Far from London,"with a poem about nineteenth century London. Shecompared the 1980s with the London of the poembecause this decade has seen a "twisting" ofvalues. The '80s have been years of excessivegreed, attacks on civil rights, increased racismand anti-intellectualism, she said...
...speech to Congress on February 9, President George Bush promised to "work to knock down the barriers left by past discrimination and to build a more tolerant society that will stop such barriers from ever being built again...