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...real liberal attitude will change then only when the Negro commands respect, when he is able to assert a manifest equality. But precisely by treating the Negro, at least superficially, as an equal, the white liberal helps break the vicious circle, which depends upon perceived social and economic inequality. Colored pride and white respect must somehow be enkindled, and if the white community cannot do it, some think the Black Muslims can. Only when "niggerness" is itself extinct will the liberal conscience lose its usefulness, and that millenium does not seem at hand. Nicholas Fels...
...tomorrow's world. (1944) Perhaps it might be possible to renew Franco-Russian solidarity in some fashion, which, even if repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remains no less a part of the natural order of things both with regard to the German danger and the Anglo-Saxon efforts to assert their hegemony. (1944) I am convinced that if France took the initiative to summon Europe to organize itself, in particular with German help, the whole European atmosphere from the Atlantic to the Urals would be changed...
...directs the attention of private individuals, but even more of private philanthropic welfare foundations, back to the world of medicine, and especially to the world of medical education, where, if anywhere, the practitioners, research workers and teachers of medicine for the future must be found. It seeks to assert that in an institution like the Harvard Medical School it is necessary to have a strong network of full-time appointees who are not beholden for their support to the Federal Government, or to anyone other than the university itself; who must be free to direct their own activities...
...legal problems are still with us, according to Butler, and likewise the Negro inferiority complex, a legacy of the American society's repression of Negroes. He suggested that Negroes at all levels should have "automatic" membership" in one mass group with the hierarchical leadership needed to assert stronger racial identity...
...feel I must point out, however, that I do not "assert," as your reviewer claims, that England in 1941 was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit...