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...essence of Satyagraha, for "the Satyagrahi bids good-bye to fear," he wrote. "Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times, the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him for the twenty-first time, for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of his creed...
...James Oliver Eastland, senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and spiritual leader of Southern resistance to school desegregation, this was a relatively restrained statement. In less temperate moments, Eastland has trumpeted the traditional Southern creed with a bluntness unsurpassed in the postwar U.S. From the floor of the U.S. Senate he has proclaimed his belief that "the Negro race is an inferior race," and has warned the nation that the white people of Mississippi will "maintain control of our own elections and . . . will protect and maintain white supremacy throughout eternity." He has denounced the Supreme Court decision banning racial segregation...
...policy and Soviet policy generally has been based upon two principles: namely, intolerance of any non-Communist system . . . and also upon the policy of using violence as a means of getting their results . . . Those policies have gradually ceased to produce any results . . . They have got to revamp their whole creed from A to Z. It is a tremendous process for them because they have got to undo the teaching of many years and get onto a new basis . . . The unity and firmness and resolution of the free nations during the past few years have caused the Soviet policy to fail...
...this conflict depends the future of all mankind. I pray that, on the threshold of the atomic age, we of the free world can muster the moral courage and total strength to preserve peace and promote the freedom of the men and women of every continent, color and creed...
...survey made by four Cornell sociologists of 7,000 students at twelve colleges and universities. Of those questioned, eight out of ten said that they feel a need for a religious faith. Only 1% described themselves as atheists. Though the tendency, said the report, is not toward any particular creed, today's students seem fairly well agreed that there must be some religious system "based on God as the Supreme Being." Other signs of a new interest in religion on U.S. campuses...