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...equally deep faith in the law and its power. At a time when people involved in civil rights, including at least one Justice Department lawyer, are skeptical of the ability of the law to help the Negro, King does not waver in his belief in the law's efficacy. "If laws are conscionably created, interpreted, and executed," he said at Harvard, "they must help the Negro." King manages to reconcile the two causes by his concept of his role as a lawyer. Essentially, he considers a courtroom appearance a chance to educate whites about Negroes. "I like to practice...
...know for sure that there is a civil rights issue involved," said Shestack. "It might just be a dispute between a cab driver and his customers." He indicated, however, that he did not think the authorities would have carried the complaint so far if Waver and the others had not been SNCC workers...
Tocsin will not fulfill its initial promise until the leaders impose on the membership the realization that Tocsin's job is to remain a voice of intelligent radicalism even when no one is listening. If the membership continues to waver between exaltation and despair, Tocsin will move dispiritedly into the demonstrators' camp--where it would be on a small, second-rate picketing organization...
Park told the officers he will not waver from his decision that four more years of his regime are needed to save South Korea from tainted politicians...
...perhaps 10,000 miles in circles, trained his mind to tick like a clock, worked four hours a day for three years on a job that will never pay him a cent. "You have to keep your eyes firmly on your goal," he says, "and try not to waver." Last week Beatty's flying feet carried him closer than ever before to his elusive goal: the fastest mile in history. Before a crowd of 8,000 in Helsinki's Olympic Stadium, Jim Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.3 sec., best time ever recorded by an American...