Morris Dees

...that equality for all meant just that. "It all seems commonplace now," Ellison said. "He was just steps ahead of all of us. " Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Law Poverty Center in Alabama, praised Justice as a man dedicated to...

In this article: Texas, Mark White, Keith Ellison, University of Texas, and Austin

...Jr. (now the UT president) said when the center was renamed. In 2006, Justice traveled to New York to receive the first Morris Dees Justice Award, named for the Southern lawyer who has spent a career fighting racism. In 2007, at a...

In this article: Texas, Tyler, William Wayne Justice Center, Austin, U.S. Supreme Court, Tyler Junior College, and Athens

...leaders are not safe, that this overheated era will end in some violent act or acts," she wrote. Civil rights activist Morris Dees is another who believes that such potentially incendiary public comments could have tragic...

In this article: Barack Obama, Peggy Noonan, The Jay Leno Show, Ku Klux Klan, Silver, and Timothy McVeigh

...p.m. EDT in the Valley Community Center. President Jimmy Carter, a longtime supporter of Mr. Fuller, will be the keynote speaker. Morris Dees, a former business partner of Mr. Fuller and the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center,...

In this article: Habitat for Humanity, Millard Fuller, Jimmy Carter, Poverty, Lanett, Ala, Business partner, and Southern Poverty Law Center

...commit before you would consider these people a threat? The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the finest organizations in America. Morris Dees, its director, has had his life threatened by racists and bigots of all stripes. At last...

In this article: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Southern Poverty Law Center, George W. Bush, Jeremiah Wright, and Socialism

...to find any on the left. It seems that, in Dees' world, only right-wing groups hate. Yet what truly makes Dees damnable is what he does when he runs out of "rightist" haters. He simply invents them. Consider how his SPLC framed the issue in the...

In this article: Rahm Emanuel, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz, and David Axelrod

...profiles of people who list the military as their occupation on the Web site New Saxon, according to the group's founder, Morris Dees. The site, run by the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement, describes itself as an "online...

In this article: National Socialist Movement, Department of Defense, Washington, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Ala, Detroit, and U.S.

...threat to national security and needs to be confronted with congressional action, a watchdog group warned on Friday. Morris Dees, a co-founder of The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that monitors hate activity in the United...

In this article: Southern Poverty Law Center, Donald Rumsfeld, Air Force Academy, Facebook, Pentagon, and David Chu

...in the military, after finding service members on a social networking Web site advertised as being for whites only. Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, says researchers have identified 40 personal profiles of...

In this article: Southern Poverty Law Center, All rights reserved, White-supremacist, National Socialist Movement, Detroit, and Associated Press

In this article: Pentagon, E mail, National Socialist Movement, The Turner Diaries, The Miami Herald, and Southern Poverty Law Center