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...Instead, with hard work, he has developed into one of the best backs in the country. He is also one of the humblest...
...conclusion, I quote William Jennings Bryan: "The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error...
They will choose their government and the opportunity for a decent, finer life for the humblest of citizens, and they will reject the Communist system of terror and torture, extortion and fear. And when that choice is finally made, then the Viet Cong will wither and fade away...
...majority, yet under the standards of a democracy, which hold that all men are equal, his argument was open to question. As Catholic Theologian the Rev. John Courtney Murray has said: "Human life has a basic sacredness whether a person holds high office or whether he is among the humblest." Only recently, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, reluctantly signing a bill abolishing the death penalty in New York except in the case of cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or other inmates, asked pointedly: "If the proponents admit that the death penalty is a deterrent...
...Science is of course not everything," Holton said, "but the low number of students who now take physics is particularly worrisome in those cases where the student cannot expect a later college education to make up for deficiencies in science. Even the humblest job in our more and more technical society will require some sound knowledge in the physical sciences and the elements of scientific thought...