Word: abel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Significantly, the bulk of the outcry has come from white New Zealanders, a fact reflecting how much the Maoris themselves have done to create in New Zealand perhaps the happiest multiracial situation anywhere on the globe. Handsome, intelligent Polynesians who settled in New Zealand long before Dutch Navigator Abel Tasman discovered the islands in 1642, the Maoris seemed well on the way to extinction in the late 19th century. Exploitation, Western diseases, above all a disastrous series of frontier wars in the 1860s, had reduced their population...
...desires peace more than you who have felt the lacerations of war," he said. "[But] just as Cain cannot murder Abel without protest, as entire nations cannot be held in slavery with no one taking the part of the oppressed, so one cannot speak of true peace, but only of acquiescence and coexistence with the murderer . . . But [some] still stretch out their hands to the new Antichrists and even race to see who can first shake hands with them and exchange sweet smiles . . . Can a Christian confronted by one who massacres Christians and insults God smile and flatter...