Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counted Martin Luther King as a friend, the grief of these days comes with a special and immediate intensity. For those qualities of buoyancy and openness of dignity and simplicity, that made so compelling from a public platform, were able to move millions of people to belief, to deed and to courage, were hardly less apparent in private moments than in others...
...BLACK POWER (1967): Today's despair is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow's justice. Black Power is an implicit and often explicit belief in black separatism. Yet behind Black Power's legitimate and necessary concern for group unity and black identity lies the belief that there can be a separate black road to power and fulfillment. Few ideas are more unrealistic. There is no salvation for the Negro through isolation...
Since faith is primarily a way of life rather than a creed to be so proclaimed, it is not something that can be reduced to an articulated set of principles. In an age of ecumenical breakthrough and doctrinal pluralism, sectarian particularities of belief seem largely irrelevant and even a little quaint. What is important is not the doctrine of predestination, for example, but the mystery of man's relationship to God that lies behind it. A Christian must accept the Incarnation-but there is room for differing interpretations of Jesus' unique relationship to God. The Resurrection...
...measure thus creates a situation in which it can be literally unprofitable to hold income-yielding investments. What especially disturbs many of the 95,000 Britons affected by the tax is the belief that they are, in effect, being penalized for investing in the very economy that the government supposedly means to help. Moreover, by making the measure retroactive, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins left them little time to minimize the burden by shedding their holdings. In defending his action, Jenkins pronounced it only fair that "fortunately placed individuals" make "some small contribution from their capital...
...Vietnam. At that date, and with unswerving conviction ever since, the U.S. insisted that it only wanted the Communists to "leave their neighbors alone." In short, it seems improbable that the United States, no matter who occupies the White House, is likely to "sell out" Saigon without vindicating its belief that "aggression," if not "national liberation," must stop...