Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...watched the fathers they revered go down in flames in front of their eyes. The sons tried to save them but couldn't, so they both were left to decide whether to try to avenge them. Gore's father lost in part because his principled stands on Vietnam and civil rights were out of step with those of his constituents; Bush Sr. lost after voters read his lips and still got new taxes. Neither son was going to follow in those footsteps...
...consists of essays dealing with the ideas of leadership, morality and, naturally, moral leadership in various contexts. Coles was lucky enough to have been friends or acquaintences with such socially concerned luminaries as Robert Kennedy and Dororthy Day, but his book also makes use of his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and other episodes of social and political conflict. Coles takes these experiences, along with a few musings on authors like Conrad and Emerson (which would probably fit very will within the curriculum of Gen. Ed. 105) and presents them as a sort of reader on the qualities...
...also chapters covering a wide variety of efforts and lives of moral leadership. We get an interview-essay chapter on Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, but we also hear the story of a New Orleans elementary school teacher trying to discuss the moral implications of the Civil Rights struggle at the very height of that movement. Lives of Moral Leadership is full of large and small experiences, but they all have similar messages on the value and the difficulty of moral leadership...
...pointed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909 and the Urban League's founding in 1910 as the beginning of what people deem civil rights activism, stressing that the movement is still not over...
However, he admitted that in a time when civil rights no longer consume the energy of all black people, it is difficult to decide on a specific focus for activism...