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...movement for disarmament, security, and building the foundation for a world community, where lasting peace and progress are possible, must come from concerned people: individuals and organizations who are willing to work cooperatively while demanding that all governments and societies adopt programs for disarmament and peace...
...considers himself a political liberal; his colleagues guess his voting record would show him to be a mainstream Democrat. The irony, to his critics, is that judges who adopt Ely's "selective activism" could undermine traditionally liberal ideas. Ely does not disagree--but to him, having judges as "an elite with a final word" outweighs the danger of having unwise legislation...
...Dominguez rejected that argument saying. "If the idea is a ggod one, we should adopt if and not be afraid of facing other proposals along the way." He added, "We should not turn drown one good proposal just because we fear we'd be too gutless to turn down others...
...Atlantic Monthly, Frankfurter argued the need for criminal justice reform after Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. In 1933 he engineered John Maynard Keynes' open letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New York Times, urging the President to forsake balancing the budget and adopt deficit spending to spark the economy, a position favored by Brandeis...
...what the U.S. attitude toward nuclear war should be: If one believes that nuclear war is unwinnable, then no defensive measures against it make sense. We must adopt the attitude of saying, "Nuclear war is indeed a nightmare, but prudence requires that we face its possibility." I compare it to cancer, which used to be a taboo word. People were afraid to mention it lest they bring it about. Of course, cancer is a horror, but it exists all around us, as do nuclear weapons. Now we face cancer. And we cure a lot of cancer because of that. Nuclear...