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...ready for a breakfast with a veterans' group and then with the Volunteers for Stevenson. As he told the latter group, this was Sunday so he was "not even going to worry about Nixon's conscience." Since the campaign's start, he has imposed on himself a creed of not speaking on Sunday, and this Sunday he desperately strove to maintain the policy of no political speeches on Sunday. To the Volunteers he spoke about religion and political aims of a Democracy. Politics continually peeped up in the speech, but Stevenson almost managed to keep them unobtrusively submerged...
...magic advertised by psychiatry, some of what passes for psychoanalysis, much of clinical psychology, all of religion, and a good deal of the less pretentious arts of medicine and social service, is based upon a cult of passivity and surrender." The Apostle Paul, Lindner complains, took Jesus' rebellious creed and made of it a soporific distillation which has "softened the muscles of resistance to exploitation...
Civil Rights. "We must make equality of opportunity a living fact for every American, regardless of race, color or creed . . . There can be no second-class Americans . . . For 20 years, leaders of the Administration have been making promises . . . And yet after those 20 years, racial segregation still exists in our nation's capital...
Diarist Strong belonged to a species of American now almost extinct. He was one of those solid, versatile squires who did their public duty even while suspecting public life, and clung fiercely to a creed of almost fanatical independence. He liked men who worked for themselves, and distrusted both Southern slave owner and Northern capitalist; neither, it seemed to him, could quite be a gentleman. He enjoyed comfort but disdained luxury, prided himself on literary cultivation yet squinted uneasily at intellectuals. He lived, or aspired to live, by the tone and manners of the Founding Fathers...
...Arthur, demand a new national leadership. His indictment of the Democratic Administration "for all of its tragic blunders" crackled and thundered. Resentment against the Administration, he said, has "poured from the hearts of the American people from North to South, East to West, with no distinction of race, creed, color or political affiliation. I know...