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Leadership Abstract - Self-Advocacy in an Uncertain Age


Self-Advocacy in an Uncertain Age by Kweisi Mfume
In an era of smaller vision, rampant apathy, and celebrated mediocrity, we
still so desperately need men and women who will stand up for that which is
right and fight back against that which is wrong. To mean it when we say
that racism and sexism and anti-Semitism are wrong, to know as a matter of
critical fact that black bigotry is just as cruel and evil as white
bigotry, and that bigots come in all colors, and to understand in our heart
of hearts at the end of the day that gay bashing and immigrant bashing and
union bashing really deplete us as a nation and rob us of our ability to
make true and lasting change...
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Dr. Susan Salvador
Office for Student Services
05/02/2003