Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement from the Red Cross read in part: "We understand there has been a racial controversy at the Club. The Red Cross cannot take sides in a controversy of this sort." They asserted though, that the services of the group are available to all, regardless of "race, creed, or color...
...Japanese girl who knows both East & West, who in fact is so "Westernized" as to reject the creed that her countrymen are supermen, may I ask to express my candid opinion in your columns...
Therefore, I propose that all New Jersey citizens who choose to send their children to private schools, regardless of denomination, creed, or location, sue the Government of the State of New Jersey for the transportation involved. This might deeply encumber the State Treasury if, for instance, many children were sent to distant schools. But, qualitatively, are not all men equal in the eyes of our courts of justice, regardless of economic status or religious belief...
Fitzgerald had the standard answer for that charge. No one should be booted out of a union, he said blandly, whether "Communist, Socialist, Democrat or Republican . . . because of color, creed, religion or political belief." He hotly denied that he was a Communist himself. So did his top assistants, Party-Liners Julius Emspak and James Matles...
...warlike rulers. . . . [But] who, in this totalitarian age of ours, is without sin in this respect? .... Those who expect the university ... to turn out good citizens in the conventional sense of the term, successful men of affairs and staunch adherents to any prevalent religious, social, or political creed, will inevitably be led to limit the freedom of research and teaching...