Word: abolitionism
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For decades, Western civilization has been edging away from the Biblical in junction of an "eye for an eye." In Britain, the death penalty (hanging) is now close to being abolished. In Europe, it survives only in France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting). Abolition has been slower in the U.S., but...
The cause is steadily gaining converts among U.S. Governors, such as Tennes see's Frank G. Clement, whose recent plea for abolition ("Thou shalt not kill") lost by only one vote in the state legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to...
A liberal in political affairs, Forbes was a member of the Committee of the One Thousand, and organization dedicated to the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the lake 1940's.
The proposed 5,000-word "Confession of 1967" does not have to deal with predestination, the historic preoccupation of Presbyterians; an amendment to the Westminster Confession way back in 1903 effectively modified the Calvinist doctrine that some men are predestined for salvation while others are damned to hell. It challenges...
Bayard Rustin's short, somewhat muddled article is the least interesting in the issue. Admitting that the civil rights movement has won only token victories against social and economic barriers to "genuine freedom"--"a handful of jobs here, a few school pairings there,"--he calls for planning across class lines...