Word: voicelessness
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...needed a celebrity speaker to raise funds for their legal defense in a censorship case, they did not turn to Jackson or Chavis or Mfume but to Farrakhan, the one black man they felt could fill any hall in town. Wherever he presents himself as "a voice for the voiceless," crowds throng to his orations, typically almost three hours long, for entertainment and moral uplift...
...department was relatively voiceless in thegovernment, most people had little clue about whatwe played so it made it easier to target," shesays. "It has little chance to survive if peopletried...
Harvard liberals continuously assert their commitment to respecting the rights of the minority, the voiceless, the marginalized. Their hypocrisy lies in their conveniently changing definitions of what constitutes a "true" minority...
Under normal circumstances, I would have spoken up. Under normal circumstances, in fact, I would have delivered a small lecture, in which I explained exactly where I thought this gentleman could wave his book. But today, I was voiceless, powerless. I let him pass me, and waited longer in line...
Denying women an people of color the ability to evaluate their voices and shape their own canon "leaves us nowhere, invisible and voiceless," Gates believes. Thus, Afro-American studies. Practically, multicultural programs can decrease some of the alienation found on college campuses among minority students. But this cannot be the only goal. Ultimately, our incomplete canon leaves academics with an incomplete view of the world. Ultimately, to reject multiculturalism is to reject intellectualism...