Word: strossen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Education is extremely important, Strossen said, because "without some [public] understanding of what civil liberties issues are, we can never garner public support...
Throughout the evening, Strossen repeatedly criticized the Communications Decency Act passed by Congress last year, charging officials with abandoning their "oath to uphold the Constitution...
...Strossen, a professor at New York Law School, urged all those interested in civil rights, regardless of their belief systems, to serve as volunteers for the ACLU...
Almost all of the lawyers who work with the ACLU, including Strossen herself, are volunteers. She joked: "I just want to make it clear [that] when we lose cases, it is not because of bad lawyers, but because of bad judging," eliciting laughter from the audience...
...Strossen also discussed legislative lobbying and public education as vehicles through which to support the ACLU, in her speech which followed a dinner with undergraduates at Winthrop House...