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...longer smiling. "Those people who are pushing for it are the same people who argued for unilateral disarmament. They want us to roll over on our backs like a defeated dog and say everything will go on happily ever after." Bernard Friedelson, a businessman, was anything but defeatist in his rebuttal. Said he: "To reverse the trend toward nuclear warfare is a voyage of a million miles. Like all voyages, it starts with a single step. This town meeting is the place to take that first step...
There is a weird defeatist attitude about the idea of a national gun control law. We hear the well-known statistics proving that the strong gun control laws of New York State and the District of Columbia do not work. Of course not, when there is no nationwide restriction that prevents a John Hinckley from buying a handgun in another state and bringing it into Washington...
...unemployment. On average, Blacks earn only a little more than half of what whites do. And those discrepancies represent the single most important domestic issues America faces. To pretend, as the majority does, that they can be dismissed as too global or too hopeless a concern is lazy and defeatist...
...candidates for the Deanship of the Law School appears to me an excellent way to invoive students, and at the same time to maintain confidentiality. I should think it was a mistake for students, with a few exceptions, not to have taken up that offer. It is cynical and defeatist on the part of students to decide not to write letters because they believe that their thoughtful and considered judgments and suggestions as to possible candidates could not be influential. One cannot know until one tries. I have observed instances where the suggestion by a student of someone...
...strict environmental determinist has no use for sociobiology. It offers only a defeatist and counter-productive program. But taking the view that genes may determine potentialities and proclivities, and that individual development, reflects conditioning plus genetic endowment, sheds a different light on sociobiology. Seen in this way, Wilson's sociobiology could prove helpful in pointing to which traits may be affected by education and which results may be expected...