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...State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous “Four Freedoms?? speech. He spoke of a world in which Pharaoh and his armies no longer existed. He envisioned that in the not so distant future we would attain a world whose citizens enjoyed “freedom from want”—a world in which a mother would never have to choose between taking her child to the doctor and feeding her family for a week; a world in which a father would never have to sacrifice his daughter?...
...virtue through government and law. Using examples from hotly-debated political issues such as universal healthcare, the Wall Street bailout, and same-sex marriage, Sandel argued that most of society’s debates—though they seem to hinge on questions of maximizing happiness and respecting individual freedoms??are really “debates about what virtues...should government, law, and public policy embody, encourage, and express.” “Politics and law can’t be neutral to the moral and religious convictions that citizens care about,” Sandel...
...creature who has given traditional religious preaching a higher prominence in our secular world,” said John F. Sears ’65, former executive director of the institute. The medal is one of several awards given by the institute to commemorate the “Four Freedoms?? that Franklin Roosevelt described in a 1941 speech as foundational to democracy. In his writing and preaching, Gomes has encouraged people to think deeply about traditional religious and moral ideas, ”reminding us that having as much of the goods of the world as we want...
...purpose of creating a “discriminatory harassment policy” to ameliorate ethnic insensitivity. As ACLU president, Nadine Strossen wrote in the Duke Law Journal, “Because civil libertarians have learned that free speech is an indispensable instrument for the promotion of other rights and freedoms??including racial equality—we fear that the movement to regulate campus expression will undermine equality, as well as free speech. Combating racial discrimination and protecting free speech should be viewed as mutually reinforcing, rather than antagonistic, goals...
...Bill of Rights, the bulwark of a society committed to ordered liberty, has emerged from the past year tattered. A host of freedoms??freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, due process, access to legal counsel and protection against unwarranted search and seizure—have been the victims of a national leadership that has unflatteringly sought to acquire power at every opportunity...
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