Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not the act of a low lawbreaker," he said, speaking of the strike. "But it is an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing that means hunger and cold and unemployment and destitution and disorganization of the social fabric; a threat to democratic government itself, and it is proper for me to say at this point that if actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the Government will be overthrown, and the Government that would take its place would be a dictatorship and that the first thing the dictatorship would do would be to destroy the labor unions...
Recognizing the evil in a system that operates on fear and repression, the United States should apply pressure on the Kuomintang government to uphold its pledge for a democratic regime. Communists should be admitted to the government in direct proportion to their following, concentration camps must be abolished, and a definite program to educate the masses introduced before Americans can justify the use of their guns to kill Chinese people in the name of "democracy." Failing in that, it would be far better for the United States to redeem Roosevelt's pledge to get out of China than support...
...minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt from rabble-rouser to Big Money, "the link between the dirty shirts and the stuffed shirts...
...mild-voiced Goldsborough called that strike "an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing." He said it meant "hunger and cold, and unemployed and democratic government itself, and "If actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the government will be overthrown, and the government that would take its place would be a dictatorship...
Biographer Simmons' sympathetic treatment of Tolstoy's religion of "nonresistance to evil," love for the common people, and individual self-perfection by undogmatic Christianity make it seem the titanic moral effort of an intellectual child, caught in the determinism of society and history upon which his own War and Peace was based. The Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated him; the Communist Lenin wrote incisively: "On the one hand, an extraordinarily powerful, direct and sincere protest against social lies and hypocrisy; on the other, a Tolstoyan, that is, a wornout, historical sniveler called the Russian intellectual, who, publicly beating...