Last week, I joined hundreds of striking fast-food workers on the streets of Harlem, where they held signs that read “I am a Man” and “I am a Woman” and chanted: “You can’t survive on $7.25.” The demonstration, led by workers struggling to survive on the minimum wage, recalled the organizing that Dr. Martin Luther [...]
In an 1869 speech in Boston, abolitionist Frederick Douglass challenged most social observers and politicians by advocating the acceptance of Chinese and Japanese immigrants into the United States. He said: There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is [...]
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