And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The mind is the collection of activities based in the brain that involve how we act, think,feel and reason.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

I hope that the people will understand that I act not in anger, but in expectation of a greater good."

VOA: special.2009.10.08

This act of peaceful disobedience started protests in Montgomery that led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

There are some organizations in the United States that act as watchdogs, rating the financial health of charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In this way, the case could be settled without deciding on the power of Congress to act on slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Early in his career, he continued President Kennedy's desire for social change by helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of Nineteen Sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

From him,Faulkner learned some of the reasons people act in the strange way they often do.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

In December, the House of Representatives passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Congress had banned slavery in those places under the Missouri Compromise Act of Eighteen Twenty.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

It describes when someone else accepts responsibility to act in the interests of a child.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

A comedy act in earlier days often included a part where one of the comedians would hit the others over the head with a soft object.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The plan succeeded. Some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean questioned the right of the United States to act as policeman for the Western Hemisphere.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

The National Arboretum was established by an act of Congress in nineteen twenty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.10.01