Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Americans are increasingly troubled about the moral content of their assumptions. A group of Marines in Viet Nam were discussing the flag raising over Iwo Jima, that heroic image of World War II. "Hell," said one Marine, "a man could get himself killed doing that." "Within the kids' lifetimes, this flag hasn't stood for the things it stood for when John Glenn and I were young." says Allen Brown, a Cincinnati lawyer. "The flag then was still the flag of the dream. It's hard for us to understand kids who have only a book idea...
...able to write: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph...
...cannot. Tyranny, like hell, may not be conquered at all. At least not by us as we are. We have had the life sucked out of us- gigantic blood-swollen ticks sucking at our hearts and heads. The statue with the big torch has burned us to ashes. We can no longer love nor desire nor even hate. We will have to sink back into the clay again in order to form ourselves as men. That's how I will begin. Clay first, then...
...system has forced people to think that they live in Hell because they deserve no better. You are poor because you are dumb and uncreative and your breath smells...
...pretty certain that most of the black people I've talked to would build cities far differently from any that white architects could design. Black people have had experience in living together. Our cities will continue to be the worst kind of Hell until we learn to live together as well...