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...Commonwealth of Virginia's first Republican Governor in nearly a century. It was a ringing inaugural. Standing on the steps of the capitol of the Confederacy in Richmond, Holton proclaimed: "Let our goal in Virginia be an aristocracy of ability, regardless of race, color or creed." As if that were not enough for a genteel white Virginia to swallow in one day, Holton went on to invoke a provocative memory: "Let us, as Lincoln said, insist upon an open society 'with malice toward none; with charity...
Kissinger is fond of calling himself the "Walt Rostow of peace by negotiations"; but in his diplomat's creed, negotiation is merely another tool to enforce one's will, a tool to which overtures, threats, and finally the use of force itself are all fixed as perpetual adjuncts. Kissinger's early advocacy of negotiations, his expressed belief that a compromise could be reached with Hanoi and the NLF, were rooted in the assumption that the overpowering weight of the U. S. military stood behind America's negotiators at every step of the way. And in a situation of fixed objectives...
...deny each other "I make mistakes everyone does" wide stance sitting knees up and down back and forth rocking "your presence is your faith" and of course I was standing in a cathedral, had genuflected, adjusted to the light of candles in small chapels, but would leave before the creed the Bishop's chapel the gold and white sun from water color window alms, old boards and a bishop so simple, such quiet and wonder a very small room, whitewashed with sun-gold on the altar, plain glass windows, the sun shining through painted patterns for speckled rainbows...
...Michigan has harassed and been harassed frequently by police. Perhaps most interesting of all are the "Nomads" and "Troglydytes"-libertarian dropouts who are currently living in the wilderness or underground. Their life-style subject of a recent article in Esquire -represents an unusually pure form of the laissez-faire creed. They have escaped the state by retreating to regions its tentacles do not touch, and have found fulfillment there...
...following terms, so that both peoples can live under the joy of independence and can devote themselves to building a society based on human equality and respect for the earth. In rejecting the war we also reject all forms of racism and discrimination against people based on color, creed, sex, national, origin and ethnic grouping which form the basis of the war policies, present and past, of the United States...