Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral evil because it strikes, through its burden of suffering, human beings in their flesh and heart . . . bringing insecurity, anguish for the next day, and often misery...
...witness" called for is sometimes possible only with close friends, "but the door of personal testimony is never fully closed, and the word spoken by the sincere man . . . carries more weight than he realizes. The 'home with the open door' is everywhere one of the most immediate human influences. As an oil executive, engineer or businessman, [the Christian] should consider his main objective not in terms of dividends for shareholders, or power for America, or prestige for himself, but as an essential Christian ministry. This will call for imagination and courage and deep faith...
...moral evil because it violates the pattern of God, who wants man to work and be able to find, in the fruits of his labor, for himself and those dear to him, the means of living a human life. In a human economy, in a juster and better organized society, there must no longer be room for unemployment...
...debates helped send Lincoln on to the presidency. In the main, Lincoln and Douglas argued three issues: 1) the extension of slavery, 2) the status of the Negro, 3) the right of the states to regulate the Negro's status. Basically, the debate of states' rights v. human rights is still passionately going...
...college classroom. By the lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...