Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are many ways to express opposition to unjust laws and unfair conditions. The sit-ins and freedom rides of the early 1960's were moving expressions of opposition to segregation laws. In addition, marches such as the 1963 Civil Rights March and the 1968 Poor People's March, helped the passage of more just laws. Democracy is infinitely perfectable--and infinitely imperfect, it does not thrive when its citizens are passive about injustice...
...district's mistrust of many veteran teachers is often unfair, if understandable. The menacing atmosphere of most slum schools is enough to cow even the most devoted teacher, who in any case is seldom equipped professionally to deal with the specialized problems of the deprived child-let alone the disturbed or disruptive student who is too often rejected as "uneducable...
Fulp, who previously worked at two large banks in Boston, is well-acquainted with the policies of commercial banks. As he explained it, the unfair deal ghetto residents constantly receive works the following way: a man who may hope to purchase a car finds that he can only do so by paying exorbitant interest to a finance company. He borrows the money, buys the car, naturally finds it impossible to keep up with the payments and within a short period of time loses both his car and the possibility of obtaining future financial credit. Then there is a real reason...
...should be axiomatic that the ultimate success or failure of black capitalism will depend on the blacks themselves. Negroes, so long denied opportunities, have a strong argument for special help. At some point, other businessmen are bound to complain that such aid gives Negroes an unfair competitive advantage. But for now, black capitalism has proved to be a beneficent form of black power, moving gradually toward the kind of green power that has led every other group upward in American society...
...TRADE. Humphrey advocates reducing such nontariff barriers as quotas and import taxes, while protecting domestic industries against "unfair dumping" by foreign producers. Both men are fundamentally free traders, but Nixon goes along with "temporary" protection for such hard-pressed industries as steel and textile. He blames domestic inflation for the nation's shrinking trade surplus...