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...Bolivia as 'the negation of all social purpose,' by Japan as 'fundamentally immoral,' by Canada as 'degrading,' by Algeria as 'cancerous,' and by Tanzania as 'a catalyst of violence.' Even the redoubtable Richard Nixon said of apartheid-in his state of the empire address of last Spring-"We abhor the racial policies of the white regimes." Furthermore, how often have we heard appeals directed to the rulers of South Africa-even by critics of the society writing from within that country-on the irrational bases of the policy and its self-negating ends; on the explosive and irreconcilable contradictions...
...Despite the protestations of youth [Aug. 17], as a member of the Establishment I refuse to have personal or group guilt feelings. We, too, abhor war and would prefer love and peace, but do Red China and the U.S.S.R. allow us to pursue such noble desires? We, too, are against hunger, poor housing, discrimination and poor medical care, but aren't we the ones who pay the taxes, contribute to charities and hire and help the minorities? We also approve of sex and love, even though the fire burns less furiously, and we supply the youth with the Pill...
...something over 200,000 men seems to many in government a formidable achievement. The President so proclaims it. Yet to the young, who face the draft and think on the time scale of youth, these withdrawals seem wholly inadequate. They are not seeking to avoid personal danger. Rather, they abhor personal involvement in a war they perceive as "immoral...
Violence? I abhor it. Somehow throughout all the broken promises and worthless agreements and "reforms," I still abhor it and condemn it. We cannot change this world through violence-we can only end it. But I wonder if people will work in any other way. The young people-my brothers -I see them growing ugly and irrational and I hear them saying things that are not different from Johnson's words and justifications about Viet Nam. Our parents hate us, our politicians desert us, our hopes simply grew old and died...
...deceiving. Actually, I've been brought up in the Frankfurter tradition" (Frankfurter was a relatively conservative Justice). As for being a "strict constructionist" of the Constitution, Blackmun says: "I don't know what it means." In that, he expresses a view common to many jurists who abhor such terms, feeling that they decide each case on its own particular merits. He thinks that serving on the court would be "a much more soul-searching, much more wrenching" experience than his current judgeship. Even that, he admits, has involved "the difficult loneliness of decision making." On the Supreme Court...