Word: voicelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite all the well-publicized gains, it just wasn't our century. American women only got the vote in 1920 (and a rest room near the Senate chambers only in 1992). For most of the past 98 years, much of the world's female population has been voteless, voiceless, illiterate, ground down by toil and sexist restrictions. When I griped to my daughter about the shortage of our kind among the top 20 leaders, she sighed at my paleofeminist pique: "But, Mom, it's just the 20th century. You know, the bad old days...
...West expressed, we need to recognize the "extraordinary in ordinariness" in all people regardless of their economic, demographic, social, etc. apparent limitations. Americans living in "inner-city and rural poverty" are not "least-skille,d," they are forgotten. They are not open to the "public space" and thus, rendered voiceless. In this instance, democracy, "rule of the people," is threatened. CHIWEN BAO '01 March...
...Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo's City Hall Tuesday. Angry Indonesian representatives boycotted the ceremony. Exiled Timorese activist Jose Ramos Horta shared the honor with Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. "I firmly believe that I am here essentially as the voice of the voiceless people of East Timor," said Belo in his acceptance speech. "And what the people want is peace. An end to violence and the respect for their human rights." The Indonesian government, which invaded East Timor in 1975 and annexed it a year later when Portugese troops pulled out in the middle...
...primary and now must cobble votes from the more moderate sectors of both parties to win in November. While adding her legislative voice to the chorus calling for lower taxes, a balanced budget and the preservation of Medicare, she has spent a career speaking out for the voiceless--fighting for tougher child-support laws and protection for battered women and children...
...This is a victory for a brand new, bold conservatism in politics...giving a voice to the voiceless," Buchanan told his supporters on primary night in Manchester. "It is a conservatism that looks out for the men and women of this country whose jobs have been sacrificed...