september march american social democrat known leadership organizations activist influential senior adviser leader labor movement raised new_york_city joined socialist movement influenced assistant civil rights leader helped organize march washington delivered dream speech analysis civil rights movement influenced nominal author protest politics leader supported change social democrats usa like leaders worked support free labor unions democracy oppose soviet communism worked strengthen labor unions worked senior assistant democratic senator jackson presidents leaders democratic_party labor unions civil rights organizations appointed organize support polish labor union solidarity support despite protests ussr carter administration acted director officially named director died age biography early life born september immediately placed adoption adopted renamed father member president local civil ran president platform calling destruction student assembly power election lost high school met lifelong friend political ally democratic socialism undergraduate students joined movement democratic socialism hearing soviet invasion hungary described rolling russian tanks hungarian workers students fighting stones heroic people crushed hopes democratic socialist links hopes freedom democracy real destroyed communist merely political force ideological smashed debate monstrous physical force democracy merely socialist cake cake socialism worth fighting young talents recognized joined working day house famous united_states book poverty united_states america particularly rhetoric writing debate civil rights leader american socialist movement sent help leaders mentor called society helped organize prayer pilgrimage washington youth march homosexuality young man gay wanted straight different world according short relationship member active movement aware explicitly closet took sexual orientation source pain embarrassment limited long time brief encounters involved compelled seek counsel psychiatrist explain unfamiliar feelings diagnosis told love good looking attractive guy according longtime socialist openly gay new_yorker accepted homosexuality year volunteered help work civil rights movement met knew gay long term relationship went stages according quoted remembrance met time years younger barely edge drew vortex endless campaigns projects introduced bach importance maintaining balance life pursuit individual pleasures engagements responsibility social condition believed class genre people exempt obligation apartment proved unsuccessful romantic relationship ended enrolled historically black remained lifelong friends political comrades white student enrolled junior senior years leader student politics worked closely later national leader young civil rights activists leaders movement helped fund day run playwright socialist composer captured position treasurer infinitely charismatic popular floor whip good lining votes knew hit patron arts having voted buy remaining performances worked chapter introduced fellow activists influential adviser emphasis economic inequality influenced graduated howard leadership helped plan march washington delivered dream speech march ghost wrote speech senior leader civil rights movement african american labor movement analysis civil rights movement influenced nominal author essay protest politics league industrial democracy director beginning wrote lid pamphlets published political journals like dissent commentary appeared pamphlet gave radical analysis end racial oppression lid director involved students democratic society lid members attended lid sponsored meeting discussed port statement listed student representative elected lid representatives criticized port statement promoting students leaders social change criticizing labor movement unions criticisms liberal socialist opposition soviet communism anti communism believed students overly critical labor unions liberals attributed upper class origins ivy league schooling according port activist observes son manual lid split voted remove constitution exclusion clause prohibited membership communists arguments exclusion clause barred advocates clause removal effectively invited disciplined attempt occurred mass organizations afterward particularly helped write death sentence nonetheless continued argue leaders need leadership tactics strategy attended forceful arguments delivery overwhelmed resented activists years old determined style debate emerged socialist movement led expressed admiration intellectual memorial answers course correct target fundamental social democrats usa leaders supported change social democrats usa despite opposition commented members trying bury soviet_union tom colleagues ran little organization listed funny thing soviet_union organizational straight lid key words democratic labor young events away understanding socialist ultimately umbrella group social democrats principal talked wrote communism democracy easy today anti communist pro democracy breath american foreign policy eventually mixture thanks young people socialist league large conservative foreign policy anti communist pro democracy foreign policy liberal style pro democracy nervous anti communist tom tough labor liberal intellectuals anti communist 1970s meant cold warriors saw bed labeled cut right worked senior assistant senator jackson presidents leaders democratic_party labor unions civil rights organizations effective able express ideas american audience according protégé called immediate withdrawal forces vietnam proposal rejected majority criticized war conduct called negotiated peace treaty position associated resigned honorary organized caucus like minded conflict pretty bad according handed activist new_york_city journalist speech president addressing september convention united america ridiculed held miami heard gay gay liberation people want marriage boys boys girls girls heard people looked like acted like odor customers prostitutes gay attributed repeated autobiography biography described speech self hatred resort gay blaming speech scholarship criticized friend officer according specialists writers stated fact wrote words quoted assessment assumes publicly gay gay according reason believe wrote lines presents failed support anti discrimination gay rights platform noted personal support criticized nation accused criticizing application join organize conference european socialism complained pages autobiography long distance runner opposition importance according biography death howe warned biographer description little nasty hard line support free trade unions assistant president position held developed expertise international affairs officer appointed organize support polish labor union solidarity maintained increased protests ussr carter administration polish union heavily involved supporting polish labor movement trade union solidarity began soviet backed communist regime headed general declared martial law december president appointed organize support solidarity sought approval advance solidarity leadership avoid position unwanted surprising american help politically supported demands workers lobbying stop loans poland demands met established raised purchase printing presses office supplies donated machines offset press supplies requested solidarity solidarity define aid need solidarity needs known courage clarity publicly know responded establishing fund purchase equipment requested solidarity raised quarter million dollars fund effort soviet_union czechoslovakia bulgaria massive vicious propaganda assault years ominous tone recent attacks leaves doubt soviet_union shall cite aid evidence outside anti socialist intervention way introducing position economic aid poland position concern consult friends solidarity views reflected statement unanimously adopted support additional aid poland adherence polish government points assured polish workers position defend gains struggle fair share benefits western aid testimony suggested policies support polish people particular supporting solidarity demand communist regime finally establish legality rights guaranteed polish constitution support enraged communist regimes eastern_europe soviet_union worried secretary state told continued support solidarity trigger soviet invasion poland refused withdraw support solidarity met ussr ambassador clarify aid support government aid solidarity initially opposed neo conservatives argued communism overthrown solidarity doomed autonomous support solidarity successful democrats republicans agreed deserved public support example open support deemed appropriate democracy suitable clandestine funding cia occurred parties president ronald_reagan supported non governmental organization congress openly fund solidarity allocation budget beginning designed core institutions associated major parties representing business president director social democrats usa representative united_nations committee human rights equipment support worth million solidarity director director implemented program having consensus foreign policy working leaders member unions helped draft resolutions represented consensus decisions nearly issues acted director suffered stroke resigned year brown death officially named director living aids earlier learned infected human virus hiv death sentence spend remaining years new beloved partner love life accepted office director feeling duty knowing taking job surely work death warned workers terminal condition bring intellectual asked monitor signs upgrade computer systems allowed work home died acquired syndrome aids maryland march age having cared partner supported friends colleagues survived partner sister niece planned memorial service held headquarters works power march dissent vol autumn problems dissent vol winter foreword new_york league industrial democracy protest politics future civil rights movement new_york league industrial democracy ghost written according direct action democratic values dissent vol riots dissent vol problem new left commentary vol july ideas movement farewell decade vol support debate introduction vol summer moral duty transaction vol march double standard versus debate july speech january photographs picture core leader world fair protesting poverty arrest civil rights movement new_jersey isbn social democrats usa
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