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I remember the sit-ins in which Black people sitting at counters remained quiet and expressionless as White trouble-makers poked and slapped and beat them to the ground.
Margie Goldsmith: Singing Out for Peace with Sweet Honey and the Rock Margie Goldsmith 2011
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They saw the unfairness and absurdity of the President, Pelosi, Reid, trying to portray these people as anarchists, as trouble-makers.
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•On text-messaging lines that enable fans to report trouble-makers without leaving their seats:
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Some newspapers are the natural home for the diggers and investigative trouble-makers.
John Mair: Is Investigative Journalism Dead or Alive John Mair 2011
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So if I'm interpreting your comment correctly, you are saying anyone who makes a Truth (big-T) statement aren't interested in peace or are trouble-makers?
Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009
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Trying to be trouble-makers again, CNN? unemployed by Obama and cannot find work
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The curious thing about lack of prior claim is that it is simply the circumstances of the moment that put the original people there in every case, yet when those who were initially excluded begin asking for or demanding inclusion, they are seen as disruptive people, as trouble-makers, as no doubt anti-American.
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Some newspapers are the natural home for the diggers and investigative trouble-makers.
John Mair: Is Investigative Journalism Dead or Alive John Mair 2011
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Meanwhile, in Washington foreign policy circles, it is getting increasingly more difficult to maintain the worn-out fiction that the United States 'differences with the region are a legacy of President Bush's "lack of involvement," or to blame a few leftist trouble-makers like Bolivia, Nicaragua, and of course the dreaded Venezuela.
Mark Weisbrot: Independent Latin America Forms Its Own Organization 2010
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Meanwhile, in Washington foreign policy circles, it is getting increasingly more difficult to maintain the worn-out fiction that the United States 'differences with the region are a legacy of President Bush's "lack of involvement," or to blame a few leftist trouble-makers like Bolivia, Nicaragua, and of course the dreaded Venezuela.
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