Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic that those who would uphold civil liberties in America must rally to the defense of individuals and groups who cannot command their political respect. The CRIMSON, in its inquiries into the present case, has found little proof that the members of Advance are intellectually or ideologically independent. And yet it is with full force that we condemn the technique of prosecution under the McCarran...
Senator Kenneth B. Keating (R. N. Y.) declared Saturday that the federal government should intervene if the state of Alabama fails to uphold the right to free assembly of Negroes demonstrating in Birmingham...
...American Association of University Professors, Kennedy said: "The Negroes in this country cannot be expected indefinitely to tolerate the injustices which flow from official and private racial discrimination. As years pass, resentment increases. The only cure for resentment is progress. I am obligated by my oath of office to uphold and enforce the law. If you were in my position, you could do no less than...
...Brazil will uphold its inter-American and Western alliances," promised Foreign Minister Dantas. But at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from the OAS. His performance so outraged conservatives at home that they blocked Goulart's attempt to make Dantas his Prime Minister. Goulart waited until last January, then made him Finance Minister...
Speaking before a Tocsin meeting, on Wednesday. Grossman explained that the peace movement had to obtain political influence within the existing two-party system. He appealed to Tocsin members to provide a peace braintrust that could give candidates the information needed to uphold a PAX platform...