Word: unjustness
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...What happened was unjust," said Selma Librarian Patricia Blalock. "Some people reacted badly. But I think you should give a town another chance. We've tried to change." To the Rev. Frederick Reese, a Selma black leader who had invited King to check out the city's denial of voting rights in the first place, the 20-year evolution has been "miserably slow." Now principal of the Eastside Junior High School, Reese pointed to two private white academies that have opened since the public schools began to integrate in 1965. "There is toleration," he said. "Toleration is a step forward...
...sleeping drunks on the sidewalk is the traditional sign that the cycle of urban decay is under way: informal controls break down, muggers and burglars move in, and stable families begin to move out. "Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is," writes Wilson. "But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community...
...Reagan proposal would restrict eligibility for Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL's) to those students whose families earn less than $32,500 per year, without any other regard for financial need. For families with more than one student in college or with several dependents, the arbitrary limit is insensitive and unjust. Further, funds from Pell Grants, College Work Study, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and National Direct Student Loans could be restricts, to families that earn less than $25,000. Under these limits, one million fewer American students would be eligible for GSL while 800,000 fewer would receive Pell Grants...
...described in stark terms the living conditions among Chicano farm workers in California and the Southwest, decrying their "poverty and indignity." He cited high child mortality rates and extremely low life expectancies for farm workers as evidence that the migrant farm system is unjust...
...real question is "Why divest only?" Supporters of divestiture from South Africa to he morally consistent should work for other ways to overthrow apartheid such as loly bying and boycotting goods made by companies doing business there while at the same time demonstrating dissents with crud practices in all unjust parts of the world (including here in the United States). I do not pretend that, in their current inconsistency supporters of divestiture are therefore wrong because they probably are not But only when they convince me that they are when they convince me that they are truly sincere serious...