Word: voicelessness
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Patriotism, according to the Republican rhetoric, consists of a smug satisfaction in our supposed greatness, not in improving the political and economic lives of the voiceless. A Republican Administration has meant and can mean different things for different groups: for an oil company, a tax break; for a university student, taxes on scholarships and cancellation of loans; for a Salvadoran illegal alien, unemployment and deportation; for a Chilean singer, loss of guitar, hands and life...
...naval officer, but she proudly made it, while the audience applauded all the way. Alan Lomax, 71, who helped America discover Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, explained as he left the White House on that special day that he had gathered "the voices of the voiceless Americans" to bring to the President...
While Jackson was declaring himself a "voice to the voiceless, representation to the unrepresented and hope to the downtrodden," right-wing Jews engaged in mud-slinging. These "Jews Against Jackson"--a JDL term--are working against the best interests of Jews and Israel. Moreover, they should not be allowed to obscure the still broad Jewish support for civil rights...
...idea that the Federal Government should continue to provide a panoply of social services for the needy. As Kennedy put it in Philadelphia, "We will be, as we have been before and at our best, an advocate for the average man and woman, a voice for the voiceless, a partisan for people who suffer and are weak...
...great-grandfather goes to Hawaii at about the same time to clear the land and plant sugar cane. He resents the rule that forbids talking on the job: "How was he to marvel adequately, voiceless? He needed to cast his voice out to catch ideas." Lonely, overworked, far from their families, the China Men dig a large hole in a rich Hawaiian cane field, kneel around it and chant. " 'I want my home,' the men yelled together. 'I want home. Home. Home. Home. Home.' " Then they cover up the soil, trusting that the cane, when grown...