Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century IssuesCompanion volume to "American forum - speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900". American speeches on twentieth-century issues. |
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Second , equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable . No man who car- ries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that ...
Second , equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable . No man who car- ries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that ...
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But the ideals them- selves are those of the democracy , of the liberty and equality , that animated our forefathers in establishing upon pioneer soil a kind of government and a kind of political institution they recognized to be new ...
But the ideals them- selves are those of the democracy , of the liberty and equality , that animated our forefathers in establishing upon pioneer soil a kind of government and a kind of political institution they recognized to be new ...
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But as time went on Negro leadership showed less interest in achieving equality between separate systems , and more concern with abolishing segregation itself . In 1952 five cases were brought before the United States Su- preme Court in ...
But as time went on Negro leadership showed less interest in achieving equality between separate systems , and more concern with abolishing segregation itself . In 1952 five cases were brought before the United States Su- preme Court in ...
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Contents
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | 3 |
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE | 51 |
MODERNISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION | 87 |
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| Title | Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century Issues |
| Author | Ernest J. Wrage |
| Editors | Ernest J. Wrage, Barnet Baskerville |
| Publisher | Harper, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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