Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murmured support for separate-but-equal education is growing more audible within the N.A.A.C.P., it may be because so little progress has been made since those historic days. Says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "You're beating your head up against the wall until it's bloody. At some point you have to ask, 'Should I continue to beat up against this wall?' To ask that question is not a terrible thing...
...national affairs, educating them in order to foster a better citizenship. Second, the knowledge that an independent press existed would chasten public officials and check their potential excesses. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about newspapers during the early nineteenth century in his monumental work Democracy in America: "So the more equal men [sic] become and the more individualism becomes a menace, the more necessary are newspapers. We should underrate their importance if we thought they just guaranteed liberty; they maintain civilization...
...affirmative-action opponent Ward Connerly [NATION, June 23] the Martin Luther King Jr. of our time? King fought against entrenched racism, sought equal rights for all Americans and met vicious opposition. Connerly is fighting an entrenched reverse racism in the name of the same cause and meets vicious opposition as well. But as we stand with Connerly, we shall overcome. THOMAS A. HEPPENHEIMER Fountain Valley, Calif...
...discipline and hard work fosters self-esteem, self-reliance and many other positive qualities. Racism is bred in homes where children are deprived of the motivation that helps them to achieve. It is not racism that is a deterrent to success, but ignorance and personal vices. Minorities need only equal opportunity, education, pay and fair treatment. Like Connerly, I see myself as a color-blind American. Minorities will never be considered equal until they see themselves that way--as humans and Americans, not as minorities. CHRISTINE JONES Barcelona, Venezuela...
This was the question in 1996. A 15 percent tax cut that would give individuals greater autonomy from the government or a government that works for American community to create equal opportunities for advancement. By no means a small question, the argument over individualism versus community has the potential to play an even greater role as we enter a world where technology both separates people from one another and concurrently demands they work in teams to succeed. That's big enough debate for any election...