Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member national Welfare Rights Organization, which developed from her own similar organization in Los Angeles. "Part of our work," she says, "is giving welfare recipients the self-confidence to stand up to the county social workers as equals instead of doing whatever they say, like dogs. We make sure our members understand the welfare laws and know what's coming to them " When that is not enough, the group sues the county -and has successfully forced it to heed its own welfare rules in case after case...
...Vietnam policy even if we had seen the absurdity of the policy and the course it would take with the foresight we now have in hindsight. Did Roger Hillsman or Jim Thomson or even Arthur Schlesinger's resignation from the government help bring about a change? To be sure, there is an "effectiveness trap," but I think one might say there is a "moral purity" trap too, for the person who remains morally pure accomplishes little except to salve his own conscience...
...course, right that faculty have often been spineless and that they have not sacrificed themselves to help students escape from military service. But how many students have sacrificed themselves for faculty when faculty faced various kinds of problems (smears in McCarthy days, etc.)? To be sure, everyone is willing to fight harder for things that most concern him than people who face less immediate difficulty. I do think, however, that many of us would be willing to exert ourselves more if we were persuaded we could really help. My point about CIA officials at Harvard...
...goes everywhere," he says sadly. So he wants to return, go back to Biafra, this time on the ground to supervise distribution of food supplies as a worker for the Red Cross or other charitable agency. "I know the people. I know the operation, I want to make sure this food gets where it's supposed to," he comments...
After the meeting, Stephan A. Kaplan '69, president of the HUC, said "apparently a few guys wanted to check on some more facts to make sure that we can come out with the right thing...