Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...external authority. Among whites, 45% believe that a man should depend on himself and not ask for favors; 53% of blacks agree. Yet 66% of the blacks questioned by Harris' interviewers contended that '"it helps to know people" in getting ahead, while only 33% of the whites thought so. Again, "If you don't look out for yourself, nobody else will" is a statement accepted by 75% of the Negroes but only by 47% of the whites. Increasingly, following one's own bent openly and unapologetically has become a criterion of moral conduct...
...think that unmarried women have as much right to sexual fulfillment as unmarried men. Women remain more attached to the double standard than men. While 59% of the men interviewed thought that unmarried women should be as free sexually as bachelors, only 38% of the women agreed...
...merely been walking in a group of some 75 to 100 to watch firemen put out a grass fire. Without warning or provocation, they said, the police opened up in a murderous fusillade of shotgun, pistol and rifle fire. Said Charles W. Hildebrand, a student: "At first I thought they were firing blanks, but then somebody, yelled, 'Oh Lord, I'm hit!' I felt a blow, like a brick, on the back of my leg. I went down and got up and I was hit again...
...near the window on May 29, 1917, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They always used the bed near the window, so if the baby were born in the daytime the light would be better for the doctor. Years later, when Jack was elected President, I thought how fortunate I was, out of all the mothers in the United States, to have my son inaugurated President on that cold, cold...
After 22 years on the job, a man would seem entitled to a pension. At least the United Steelworkers union thought so when it offered $25,000 a year to Arthur Goldberg, who had served the union as counsel from 1939 to 1961. The former Labor Secretary, Supreme Court Justice and U.N. Ambassador thought about it for three weeks and then politely declined. "I'm proud of my reputation," said Goldberg by way of explanation. "My integrity is something I value very much...