Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NONVIOLENCE (from Birmingham jail, 1963): 1 your statement, you asserted that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. Isn't this like condemning the robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of the Crucifixion...
...elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant...
...Evil Portents...
Early in the week he occasionally played the demagogue. Not only did he continue his practice of blaming Johnson for virtually every social evil from crime to narcotics; at one point he even accused the President of "appealing to the darker impulses of the American spirit." This was a bit too much for some of Kennedy's close advisers. "You won't hear any more of that," said one, and Bobby himself later commented: "I'm afraid I didn't handle it very well...
...representation of the cultural climate is Merlin otherwise known as The Firm, an international syndicate with tentacles in all the world's major markets. It is the embodiment of 20th century scientism, an emotionally neutral, self-perpetuating system of techniques that can be used for good or evil. Drawn into The Firm's cushy embrace is Inventor Felix Charlock, who sees himself as a "thinking weed," a pun on Pascal's definition of man as a "thinking reed." The Firm wants Charlock for his new recording device, which leads to the development of the ultimate computer, Abel...