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...economic discipline necessary to remedy the gold drain. President Johnson has long since asked for a 10% surtax. This means that an unmarried taxpayer who, with an eye toward April 15, has figured this year's federal tax due on $10,000 at $1,742 would next year owe an additional $131, based on a higher tax tor nine months. So urgent has the tax issue become that Washington has begun to talk about returning to the higher schedules in effect before 1964. In that event, next year's bill for the same taxpayer with the same income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What It Can Mean to the Average American | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...good white Harvard people come down to help us poor Southern Negroes--you come down here and take over--and you expect us to love you. We don't owe you anything--we didn't ask you to come. We don't want your help...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: White Harvard Students Tutor At A Southern Negro College | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...widows and orphans, to our civilians mangled and burned beyond recognition, to our dead rotting unburied in sun and rain, we owe nothing less than the truth: this is not a struggle for freedom and democracy; it has become a war of genocide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Statement | 3/13/1968 | See Source »

...standards of the past, Papa Doc is an honorable man. He has survived, he has brought a semblance of stability to the country, and in the minds of the people he has identified himself with Haiti by declaring himself with Haiti by declaring himself president for life. As they owe their lives to the republic, they feel they owe their loyalty to its president...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: A View of Haiti | 3/9/1968 | See Source »

Clearly the only way to avoid innumerable recurrences of the Orangeburg tragedy is for Negro college administrators to realize the support they owe to their students' political actions. The black college can be an effective force in bringing the political change and social justice so desperately needed in their neighboring communities. These colleges are producing the people that are going to make that change happen. It would be tragic if those changes occur despite the role of the black college, rather than because...

Author: By Charles J. Hamilton jr., | Title: Lesson of Orangeburg | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

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