Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...many ways this is unfortunate, because Points of Rebellion is not a manifesto for radical change. Rather, it is an attempt by an embattled civil libertarian to save what he considers to be America's liberal heritage. Douglas does not sound the call for revolution, but argues that unless there is extensive institutional reform in America, revolution is inevitable. Drawing an analogy between the present-day American Establishment and George III, he writes, "A vast restructuring of laws and institutions was necessary if the people were to be content. That restructuring was not forthcoming and there was revolution...
...black people have shed the myth that they are an ignorant, lazy, do-nothing band of subhumans, as the white race has branded them, and have emerged to show the white world what they really are: a proud race of talented people, determined to receive what they deserve: not civil rights, but human rights...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) may ask the Federal courts to prohibit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from prosecuting the demonstrators arrested by state police at Wednesday's "Die-In" at Logan International Airport...
...COURSE, the people were more important than the events. Daniel and Philip Berrigan, brothers and priests, had come out a poverty-stiffused Minnesota childhood with a paradoxical gentleness. Philip, fatherly in his white crewent, had moved from civil rights work in New Orleans to anti-war organizing after the first Kennedy assassination. His belief in the Christianity he preached had made people uncomfortable because he wanted to act on that belief. His superiors had silenced him when they transferred him to Baltimore, but then the Pope spoke against the war, and Philip felt himself unmuzzled again...
...Board of Director from 24 to 27 members, to include three public representatives. If this passes, Campaign GM has promised to nominate for the posts Betty Furness, President Johnson's consumer affairs advisor; Rene Dubos, Pulitzer-prize winning environmentalist at the University of Chicago; and Rev. Channing Phillips, Washington civil rights leader...