Word: human
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Such movements, wrote Historian Norman Cohn, strive to endow "social conflicts and aspirations with a transcendental significance - in fact with all the mystery and majesty of the final, eschatological drama." To be human is to live inside history, to accept a reality that does not respond to dogma or a megalomaniac's discipline. One escape is that found by the people in Jonestown. - Lance Morrow
...Human beings always came first. . . His world is gone. His standards and values went with rural life...
...Jefferson's "basic faith in human beings and in the human mind," Malone said, remains the central political theology of America, the legacy of our most talented President. "Jefferson was an excessive optimist," said Malone. "He was an optimist when he probably had no business being an optimist...
...Hong's passengers-mostly ethnic Chinese-represent a new type of refugee. There is some evidence that the ship and its human cargo left Viet Nam with the knowledge of either the Hanoi government or high Vietnamese officials. Refugees have testified that since July a scarcely concealed escape network has been in existence that allows people, especially of Chinese descent, to leave the country for a price-currently about 10 oz. of gold, or roughly $2,000, per person. "It's all organized by the government," says one Vietnamese Chinese who arrived in Thailand this month. "They want...
...Shah last week repeated his pledge to hold free elections in the near future and announced the release of another 477 political prisoners; in the past three months, 1,903 have been freed. However, two members of the International League for Human Rights, an independent organization affiliated with the United Nations, completed a fact-finding mission to Iran and reported that thousands of political prisoners were still held in Iranian jails...