Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopes that it may be reinstated. Its spirit and interest in the game has been higher than in past years and its members are eager to prove to the college that they can uphold the traditions and respect of Harvard. All they ask is that they be given an equal opportunity...
...warm occasion were Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Attorney General William Rogers, and a host of the nation's leading lawyers. Attorney General Rogers read a letter to Hand from the President of the U.S.: "You have stood for that excellence and temperament essential to the achievement of equal justice under law." Learned Hand found his reply in a Shakespearean sonnet to Time: "This I do vow, and this shall ever be;/I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee...
...those things that men can think about but cannot get?" Answering his own question, Nixon invoked the words of the late U.S. Senator Robert Taft: "I do not see how we can hope to secure permanent peace in the world except by establishing law between nations and equal justice under law." The process would need no sweeping new charter said Nixon; the International Court of Justice is already established at The Hague and needs only to be used to be effective. "It would be foolish to suppose that litigation before the court is the answer to all the world...
...Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying the sun if it is fine, breathing in the fullness of the afternoon, the sweetness of evening, the mysteriousness of night, with equal joy and wisdom. Perhaps that is why you hear singing everywhere, fine music that fades away into space as if it were spontaneously generated." Coming back to the outside world from Tibet, travelers miss the serenity and peace, the brimful feeling of being at one with nature and the universe...
Worked for equal rights...