Word: creeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That year, 1904, had a meaning which the world is only now beginning to understand. It was the year when the Japanese struck the Russians at Port Arthur and defeated them. It was the year when the Japanese first tested themselves, their arms and their creed of conquest against an occidental power. And, with 1905, it was the period when their hatred of the U.S., already born, was rooted in them. For it seemed to the Japanese that Teddy Roosevelt, waving the white man's big stick and dictating the Treaty of Portsmouth, saved the Russians' in Asia...
...carrying out decisions. "What is required," he writes, "is a willingness and ability to take orders and instructions and to carry them out faithfully, even when you disagree." The book concludes with a clarion call for a new belief in the common man, the core of the democratic creed...
...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...
...Friends who find themselves unable to support their pacifism by tradition or creed sometimes defend it by saying that it is the requirement of Christianity. They have a case. The spirit enjoined by the New Testament was plainly one of love and mercy. But surely it was a spirit that Jesus enjoined, not an iron rule. If keeping a rule involved worse evils than its breach, Jesus broke it without a qualm. . . . It is impossible to make Jesus out to be a consistent pacifist even in personal relations, let alone international relations...
...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...