Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including what the Communists did to him, and to assume that whatever the U.S. does is questionable and probably wrong. Rickett is, beyond all else, the ultimate example of what can happen to a non-Communist who does not believe or ceases to believe that Communism in itself is evil. He has made his personal accommodation with it. Now he must justify it, and he does so, maintaining with all sincerity that he is "not a Communist." His way of saying this tells everything: "I am an American," he says firmly. Then he adds: "It takes a pretty good...
...when they got ready to come back to this country, they just picked him up and brought him along. The years passed and he grew up, and, boy, he grew up into one mean man. One day his owner came to him and said: 'You're so evil I got to get rid of you. But I haven't the heart to sell you or give you to another man. So I'll tell you what I'll do: if you'll get out of the town and county and state...
...merely by setting separate "schools" for one or two students. "It was beginning to look as though every time we won a lawsuit we were working our way deeper into the separate-but equal hole. The fact was we just weren't ready to tackle segregation as an evil per se. We didn't know enough...
...Fate. The Jones biography shows again that Freud was essentially a Dessimist about mankind. "I don't rack my brains much about the problem of good and evil," he once wrote, "but on (he whole I have not found much of the good' in people...
Catherine learned to preserve her own susceptible skin through "meticulous honesty and good will." Her maxim: "Behave so that the kind love you. the evil fear you, and all respect you." Of her conduct during those years, she writes: "I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman with a mind much more male than female...