... avid reader of many philosophers and renegades" works, got from Gandhi's works what he failed to get from the works of Marx, Lenin, Hobbes, and Bentham: a working system of peaceful revolution. (Stride Toward Freedom, 97) Dr. King's work benefits us all today because without unrestricted diversity in race and culture, the world would be a very boring and uniform place. In science ... has yielded many discoveries, for without diversity, there is a lack of fresh ideas. Without diversity to spark the scientific method, the world would become a static society in a plateau of scientific disc...

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... economic growth. I also learned that between 1830 and today, 15,000 patents were granted to black inventors. There were also many African-American pioneers of Industrial Revolution in America. George Washington Carver, a Missouri-born slave, became a scientific authority on crop diversification and soil conservation. In education, like "old" immigrants from Europe, the "newest" immigrants from Asia faced serious problems of ethnic adjustment ... ...

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... , three years after the Civil War. For generations, the Du Bois family had been an accepted part of the community since before his great-grandfather had fought in the American Revolution. Early on, Du Bois was given an awareness of his African-heritage, through the ancient songs his grandmother taught him. This awareness set him apart from his New England community ... to fighting the terrible racial oppression that held the black people down, both economically and politically. Du Bois's determination was rewarded with a scholarship to Harvard, where he began the first scientific sociolo...

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... economic growth. I also learned that between 1830 and today, 15,000 patents were granted to black inventors. There were also many African-American pioneers of Industrial Revolution in America. George Washington Carver, a Missouri-born slave, became a scientific authority on crop diversification and soil conservation. In education, likeold? immigrants from Europe, thenewest? immigrants from Asia faced serious problems of ethnic adjustment, yet their ... ...

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... . To study the classics, humanists learned to read Greek and ancient Latin, and they sought out manuscripts that had lain undisturbed for nearly 2,000 years. The humanists rediscovered writings on scientific matters, government, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. They were influenced by the knowledge of these ancient civilizations and by the emphasis placed on man, his intellect, and his life on Earth ... , Langston Hughes looking elegant and solemn at his writing table, Josephine Baker in feathered dance costumes, W.E.B. Du Bois looking confidently into the camera lens. But the black renaiss...

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... , while a tense, prolonged, and dangerous global Cold War against the Soviet empire and Maoist China took shape. The competition with the Soviets gave an added boost to the technological and scientific revolution; and American universities expanded immensely as centers for defense research, for the education of a vast new public, and as employers of creative writers and as arbiters of taste. The postwar ... ...

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