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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country, consulted daily with ever widening circles of influential Congressmen. There was talk of a televised presidential address to a joint session of Congress. But the dramatized search for an anti-inflation program proved slow and frustrating. Within the Administration, economists fretted endlessly over the pros and cons of various budget-balancing proposals. The President's aides finally canceled all plans for Carter to address Congress, which was reluctant to play host to what was bound to be an unpleasant message...
...others" who are consciously aware of a malicious intent. The fact is that most racists--and bigots in general--are well-intended, friendly, good people. They hope that Blacks/Gays/Asians/Women/Chicanos get their rights. But as long as they refrain from actively attempting to transform their attitudes toward and assumptions about various oppressed groups, they will be providing de facto support for a maintenance of the status...
...since Third World people are just being incorporated into the economic system they do not have the "experience" necessary to rise in any great numbers and will not be able to do so in the foreseeable future. At Harvard, the standard of objectivitiy is used against us in the various "comps." It is ludicrous to expect Third World students to have the same "objectivity" as white students. Someone must determine who is "qualified," what defines "experience" and what is "objective." In the United States, the Western tradition is the basis for definition. This idea of objectivity is racist because...
...democracy: We want people to participate in shaping their own Lives at various levels, especially in the countryside. The workers there will be established into various committees which have a management role. That's what we envisage. I refuse to borrow political models. The principles-yes, the principles that people must finally be their own masters, share the ownership of their resources, peasants being well organized into collective units... These are principles from the experiences of others, like China, Yugoslavia, Rumania. I don't want regimentation. I just wouldn't like that I feel revulsed by dictatorship...
...could say he was a man who had gone to pieces, or maybe he'd always been in pieces; maybe he'd arrived unassembled. Various parts of him seemed poorly joined together. His lean, hairy limbs were connected by exaggerated knobs of bone; his black-bearded jaw was as clumsily hinged as a nutcracker. Parts of his life, too, lay separate from other parts. His wife knew almost none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked; it wasn't in a safe part of town, their mother said. Last month's hobby...