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- 691: Affirmative Action
- ... ego The third reason that affirmative action should remain public policy is political denial. One example is a speech by one of our nations leaders, former Vice President Bob Dole… "Let me now forgive us… Slavery was before we were born…must future generations continue to pay the price for ancient wrongs?" (R. Wilkins, p. 344:19). This kind of rhetoric demonstrates that some white Americans deny that there is still ...
- 692: Abortion
- ... hard, 19% about right and 21% had no opinion. Men more then women thought it too hard. Even if the majority did want it, this does not make it right. Centuries ago, most Americans thought slavery was right. The elected leaders of this country must have the wisdom and integrity for what is right, not for what might be politically opportune. One of the uttered justifications for abortion on demand is ...
- 693: Abortion
- ... hard, 19% about right and 21% had no opinion. Men more then women thought it too hard. Even if the majority did want it, this does not make it right. Centuries ago, most Americans thought slavery was right. The elected leaders of this country must have the wisdom and integrity for what is right, not for what might be politically opportune. One of the uttered justifications for abortion on demand is ...
- 694: Housing Discrimination And Hou
- As we look back at the history of the United States, one of our worst legacies is our poor treatment of minorities. In our country's earliest years we were importing and selling blacks into slavery, an issue that tore our country in two. Yet through trying and often tragic efforts, minority leaders have elevated the legal status of blacks. With the passing of the Civil Rights Act early this century ...
- 695: Bilingual Education
- ... collect welfare and detract from society, that’s fine but you will do it on our terms. To say America also has a civil rights tradition is also questionable. Is this not the country where slavery was permitted for 300 years, where women couldn’t vote, and where abortions are readily available. People’s civil rights are being infringed on all the time, from a black slave to an unborn baby ...
- 696: The Ineptitude Of The United S
- ... Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Those are the opening lines to the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776. Yet, slavery continued in the United States for nearly ninety years after this document declared that "all men where created equal," and those "unalienable rights" are still not shared by everyone in the United States. The U ...
- 697: The Evolution Of Inequality In
- ... that "…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…"(Jefferson). The reality of the Declaration of Independence was that all free, white, landowning men are created equal. Slavery continued in the U.S. for nearly ninety years after the Declaration, and black Americans still feel the sting of inequality. Women were also left out of "…all men are created equal…." The implied meaning ...
- 698: Genghis Khan & The Mongol Empire
- ... of nations and clans subject to the Mongols from holding honorary titles. Men guilty of theft of a horse or a steer or a thing of equal value will be cut in half. He outlawed slavery, and required every man to join the army. He punished adultery by death. Spies, false witnesses, and sorcerers are condemned to death. Officers and chieftains who fail in their duty, or do not come when ...
- 699: Thomas Jefferson
- ... freedom in 1777. When it was enacted in 1786, it firmly established the separation of church and state and provided the basis for the First Amendment's clause on religion. ...War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. The First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right ...
- 700: Rosa Parks
- ... able to raise enough food for all. During the first half of this century for all blacks living in America skin color affected every part of their lives. The South in particular was very racist. Slavery had been abolished only by some fifty years earlier, and blacks were still hated and were feared by whites because of skin color. Jim Crow had a law "separate but equal." The Supreme Court ruled ...
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