American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.
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You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
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The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.
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There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
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Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.
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It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
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Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.
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If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
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The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.
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American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
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