Word: ture
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States is the most politically backward country in the world," Ture said, calling American culture "bourgeois" and the American political scene "obscene." But he added that "humans have an instinctive love for justice" and will keep fighting for equality until they overcome "vicious capitalist pigs...
...speech, sponsored by the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, followed an afternoon workshop at Leverett House, in which Ture fielded questions from a smaller audience of primarily BSA members...
Workshop participants asked for a viable alternative to a capitalistic America based on "injustice and inequality," and Ture said that revolution was the only choice...
...Ture, an organizer for the socialist All-African Revolutionary People's Party, said that he "seeks recruits" to begin a Harvard chapter of his organization...
...Ture said that Black students in particular must unite and rally those "misdirected" students who do not see the need for continued struggle in the eighties. But Shemin V. Proctor '87, BSA secretary-general, countered that Black students are "apathetic, not misdirected...