Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the conservative trend in American politics has revealed a basic-and unpleasant-side of human nature. When the average citizen achieves a socio-economic plateau that he has long been striving for, the first thing he often does is try to deny that level to those immediately below him on the scale. This tendency is evident today as many blue-collar union workers support George Wallace in a desperate attempt to deprive the Negro and Puerto Rican of the same benefits they now enjoy. These newly self-appointed guardians of the status quo would do well...
...Russell, I have yet to find even the slightest hint that he condoned the Stalinist purges. In fact in his essay "Why I Am Not a Communist," he states that he believes that Communism's theoretical tenets are false and that Communism would "produce an immeasurable increase of human misery...
...County Judge Monroe Friedman ordered him imprisoned for two to 15 years. Friedman denied a motion to free Newton on bail, glanced only cursorily at a 15-inch stack of petitions signed by 29,301 people testifying to Huey's character as "an honest, dedicated, loyal and selfless human being...
...faceless social cause, but a community of individuals, some of whom could be as intractable, nasty, destructive-and racist-as some whites had been all along. And through these discoveries ran the nagging realization that the more the Negroes got, the more they demanded. That this is a universal human trait was beside the point...
...another person, or when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to make the arrest and the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a forcible felony, or is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon, or otherwise indicates he will endanger human life or inflict great bodily harm unless arrested without delay...