Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of them are black, and when you move in this fashion, you talk about a broad political scope, not only free breakfasts every morning, free lunches in the schools every day, you start taking care of the children, because they are the ones who will sustain the struggle. We were talking about free health clinics in another program, significantly related to the political desires and needs of the people. We see the people unifying around these types of programs-free clothing programs...
...clear that students can wield their greatest influence and power within their own communities. It is unlikely in fact that students will be able to sustain long-term organizing against the war anywhere but on their own campuses. This has to do more than anything else with the seriousness of the organizing required to eliminate an evil that reaches to the root of the American power structure. Students were able to canvass with some success around anti-war referenda and moratoria, but those movements were innocuous and patently unsuccessful in stopping the Vietnam conflict. In their opposition...
...environment's future depends in part upon whether the public sentiment mobilized last week will endure to force change, whether Americans will sustain their interest in the longer and duller tasks of cleaning up the land. Says George Wiley, director of the National Welfare Rights Association: "I hope this movement is not a fad, but the signs are not encouraging." Still, there are a few hopeful signs. A Harris poll published last week indicated that Americans, by a margin of 54% to 34%, are willing to pay more taxes to finance air-and water-pollution control. Three years...
Nader explained that this type of professional structure is necessary if the environmental movement is to sustain "an entrenched role of constant change rather than just an episodic reaction...
...Court: That is a maxim of the law I never heard of, and I sustain [the prosecution's] objection...