"defend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In defending segregation, Perez said: "Do you know what the Negro is?
- However, Bilbo was also an avowed racist who openly defended segregation and was a member of the Klu Klux Klan.
- Rivers shifted his approach from defending segregation to the maintenance of law and order.
- Though he was never known to utter a racial epithet, and though you would never catch him blocking a schoolhouse door, in the arena of politics Thurmond staunchly defended segregation.
- Instead, he defended racial segregation, writing:
- Mr. Warren's essay, "The Briar Patch," defended segregation as the best hope for blacks to have a decent life.
- Proud of being a racist, Bilbo believed that black people were inferior, defended segregation, and was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
- The biographer Dan Carter found fellow crew members who remembered Mr. Wallace's barracks lectures defending segregation in Barbour County.
- A well-educated slave owner, he rejected the principle of the Natural Rights of Man in order to defend legal slavery and segregation on the basis of race.
- He had pledged to defend segregation, using the campaign motto, "No, not one," meaning not one black child in a white school.
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