• "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, is an anti–Vietnam War and pro–social justice speech delivered...
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    Foreman Testroet, who had been, at the age of five, the first white child to break the boycott that ensued from Bridges' attendance at that school. On July...
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    the world to achieve their end of life in this world and beyond. Jainism is sure to have the uppermost status and Lord Mahavira is sure to be respected...
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  • warning. In his famous anti-war address "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," delivered 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at...
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    to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond (2008) 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-59332-260-1 Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing...
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    crowd observed a moment of silence in his memory. Wilkins had initially refused to announce the news because he despised Du Bois for becoming a Communist—but...
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    a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence". He spoke strongly against the U.S.'s role in the war, arguing that the U.S. was in Vietnam...
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  • support the cause, equating silence about segregation to the atrocities of the Holocaust. Local rabbis disagreed and asked them to go home. The editor of The...
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    Sermon on the Mount (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from April 2020)
    the double standard approach which developed by the time of the Middle Ages, requiring the sermon to be taken seriously by only some members of the Church...
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    (March 8, 2006). "A break-in to end all break-ins". Los Angeles Times. United States Congress 2002, p. 15235. Canedy, Dana (April 6, 2002). "A Minister Says...
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    Elijah Muhammad (category Converts to Islam)
    Illinois. During his time as leader of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad had developed the Nation of Islam from a small movement in Detroit to an empire consisting...
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  • he found with the Vietnam War in his speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence." Although King was initially hesitant to speak about the U...
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    about the Vietnam War: "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence". King stated that, "somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child...
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    The Boston Globe (August 29, 1963). Marquis Childs, "Triumphal March Silences Scoffers", The Washington Post (August 30, 1963). Max Freedman, "The Big...
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    go beyond 'Kumbaya'". USA TODAY. Retrieved July 19, 2019. Stephanopoulos, George (January 8, 2012). "Mike Huckabee Says Mitt Romney May Run Table to Nomination"...
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    (SNCC). As the Selma-to-Montgomery march is about to begin, King talks to Young about delaying it for a day so he can spend some time with his family, but...
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    pop chart. 1967 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church. 1968 – Martin...
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    his highest priorities, coupling it with a "war on poverty." However, the increasing opposition to the Vietnam War, coupled with the cost of the war, undercut...
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    rights in the United States. 1967: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s anti-Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church in New...
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    satyagrahis to follow the following principles (Yamas described in Yoga Sutra): Nonviolence (ahimsa) Truth – this includes honesty, but goes beyond it to mean...
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  • witness to 1955 murder of Emmett Till". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 6, 2017. Barry, Ellen (May 18, 2004). "Counting on Time to Break a Silence". Los...
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    its platform for his "Beyond Vietnam" speech. Later, CALCAV addressed other issues of social justice issues and changed its name to become simply Clergy...
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  • In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a little rough at times" and "let his toughness build a reputation throughout...
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  • Norman Morrison (category American anti–Vietnam War activists)
    Morrison's widow, Anne, and the couple's two daughters visited Vietnam in 1999, where they met with Tố Hữu, the poet who had written the popular poem "Emily,...
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    Retrieved July 5, 2019. "Selma – Breaking the Grip of Fear" ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive. Are You "Qualified" to Vote? The Alabama "Literacy Test"...
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    people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through...
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  • seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. Many bus drivers treated their black passengers poorly beyond the...
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    work and spent his time watching daytime soap operas;: 203  according to Tushnet, who clerked for Marshall, the idea that he "was a lazy Justice uninterested...
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    peace" after attempts to arrange protests. He launched a failed Congressional bid in 1968 and later faced criticism for his decision to be employed by President...
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    would have to meet standards beyond citizenship. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 directly addressed and eliminated most voting qualifications beyond citizenship...
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