Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
Gnawing Memories. In the beginning, says Author Smith, there was evil, and from it flowed the guilts that have kept the South in unhappy restlessness ever since. The evil, of course, was slavery -as visible as an overseer's lash. But the guilts are hidden and unprobed. "We have known guilt without understanding it, and there is no tie that binds men closer to the past and each other than that...
Even in the years after the Civil War, she continues, "the South's conscience hurt; always there were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...
...South could not find peace; its guilt drove it to a collective persecution complex. "Beyond the mountains was the North: the Land of Dam-yankees, where live People Who Cause All of Our Trouble; and at the end of the North was Wall Street, that fabulous crooked canyon of evil winding endlessly through the Southern mind which is, like the dark race, secretly visited by those who talk loudest against...
...sexual mores, the South further entangled itself in the guilts bred by the evil of slavery. To buttress his sense of superiority, the Southerner elevated the white woman to an impossible level of "purity" and then, to satisfy his instinctual needs, he turned to the Negroes with their "physical grace and rhythm and . . . psychosexual vigor." Each time that the Southerner "found the backyard temptation irresistible, his conscience split more deeply from his acts...