Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly support the right to put up a symbol to express a point of view, but I'd like people who put up symbols to appreciate the substance of that symbol," said Harley E. Guttman '92 just before she began her march to Cabot...
Organizers also passed out pins attached to colored ribbons that read, "I wear this pin as a symbol of my commitment to exercizing my rights responsibly and with respect for other...
...such a case--where there are powerful historical associations attached to a given symbol--one must be sensitive to the impact of those associations. I would hope people's individual choices will reflect an incorporation of the values of consideration and community. It would mean then, that along with the testing of the limits of individual rights, energy and care would be placed in the maintenance of a community which is responsible to and responsive to all its members...
Dowling said that a student who hung a Confederate flag from a window in his Leverett suite last year was persuaded to voluntarily remove it after hearing the community's disapproval of that symbol...
...institution of slavery was a diabolical attempt to rob an entire race of people of its humanity, to turn human dignity into saleable chattel. Those who defend the flag as a symbol of Southern pride and hospitality miss completely the pain and offense it causes to so many. Certainly members of the Harvard community should know better...