Word: absurdum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reductio ad absurdum lies in the Red Cross' refusal to accept Negro blood donations. To add to these inanities by sending colored troops to Southern training camps is a point of friction that can and should be avoided...
Thus we observe the reduction ad absurdum of the premise that the view of any individual or any majority is ipso facto absolute. The best that can be said for a majority opinion is that it is a majority opinion under which the policy of the nation should be provisionally ordered. For always the dictatorial tendencies of a majority should be subject to the check of a wakeful minority aspiring to power...