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...thus, human rights did not exist in his world, he wrote. “Bentham’s doctrines of greatest happiness and conditional obligation do not protect rights at all,” Chertoff said. “To the utilitarians, the only reason why civil rights should be respected would be that more pleasure is attained or pain avoided by general respect for them.” Chertoff also attacked what he saw as the lack of safeguards for the rights of the minority in Bentham’s philosophy. “[Bentham’s] main...
...Writing about the campaign when it was all over, Richard Nixon admitted that there was "one incident?which, in retrospect, might have been avoided or at least better handled." Despite a civil rights record he was proud of, he did not have any comment on the case. Like John Kennedy, Nixon was desperately trying to figure out how to attract northern black voters without alienating southern white ones. And so he decided the best course was to say nothing...
...Kennedy's campaign meanwhile printed perhaps a million pamphlets recounting the candidate's support for the civil rights leader and his family, which they handed out in front of black churches all around the country. Two days before the vote, Dr. King himself went on the radio to praise Kennedy and denounce the Republicans for "disagreement and double-talk." It was not quite an endorsement-but it was enough...
...DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
...Patrick activists will outnumber Reilly supporters by a two-to-one margin among committed delegates at the June convention, according to the Boston Globe. An African-American who served in the Clinton Justice Department as the nation’s top civil rights enforcement official, Patrick has rallied caucus-goers with his liberal stances and his compelling life story...