Word: voicelessness
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...focus of attention from the club owner onto the city. "The fact is, safety codes were not enforced, and it's the job of inspectors and officials to do just that," he said. Coming from a civil rights advocate with a long record of giving voice to the voiceless, Jackson's temperate response to the E2 disaster seemed curious, to say the least. The E2 investigation is beginning to show that the fault for the disaster is widespread: overcrowding, obstructed auxiliary exits, a security guard's careless use of choking pepper spray on a packed dance floor to stop...
...turn drew pictures of Chen. The result is the winning Dialogues with the Peasants of Tiangongsi, a wall-size series of paired oil paintings. Chen makes his untutored peasants, some of whom prove to be adept artists, "equal participants in my work." It's a welcome dignity for a voiceless people...
...America emerge that is humbler and more humane. An America that will lower its flags to half-mast when another country is struck by brutality, that will call its citizens to vigils when peace is threatened abroad, that will observe moments of silence for the world’s voiceless victims, that will muster its troops for battles of justice in someone else’s home. We have the power to transform a moment of hypocrisy into a moment of truth; let our humanity not prove to be ephemeral...
Although a mainstream candidate will be elected this year, Hagelin says that these "voiceless voters" can be heard now and in the future...
...were to be politically correct and not propound a position, we would be virtually voiceless during a time when the Cuban-American voice is very significant," he and his CAUSA co-president Juan Carlos Rasco wrote in an e-mail message to the CAUSA mailing list...