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The Nation
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June 24, 1991
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The banners in the brave days of the civil rights struggle proclaimed the dignity and irrefutable nobility of the cause: Justice. Equality. Jobs. The campaigns then were sharp and sometimes shocking, and while the response from government was often tardy or incomplete, it was always directed to the demands.
This year, the keepers of the civil rights cause could come up with no slogan catchier than "The burden of proof in antidiscrimination lawsuits should be on the employer!" It probably appealed to lawyers (273 members of Congress, most of them with some legal education, voted for the proposition) but it did not start a prairie fire of enthusiasm in the country. And ...
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