Word: infliction
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...nation may take greater heart from the luminous words he flung into the face of white America: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process." In his death, if not in life, Martin Luther King...
Radicals do not glorify black violence, but demand an end to the much greater violence which police, poverty, and racism inflict daily on the souls and bodies of black people. Let Dr. Coles reconsider his priorities: Who in this society most deserves his anger? David Holmstrom Michael Maller
...pain. It was a gentlemanly thing to do; but Stalin had never had much use for his sensitive and with drawn son. He hounded and beat the boy so unmercifully that in the Kremlin one night in the late 1920s, Yakov tried to shoot himself. He only managed to inflict a serious head wound, and Stalin afterward taunted him that he was incapable even of killing himself. It might have impressed the old man to know that his son finally mustered the courage to do the job, even with German help...
...Under no circumstance can we inflict violence on people, torture or kill them because we think such acts could be of use to us or to others," Tolstoy wrote. He delivered this advice to his young correspondent in the knowledge that the penalty for evading conscription into the Hessian army was death, even though it was a time of peace...
Search for Stability. Ideally, nations would so order their economies as to keep their payments in balance over the long run. The search for such stability is greatly complicated by the world's increasing dependence on foreign trade, which means that shifts in one big national economy can inflict much damage on neighbors. Because West Germany's recession led to a sharp drop in imports and a surge of exports, both Belgium and The Netherlands suffered payments deficits in 1966, rebounding last year only after German business picked up again. Italy paid a heavy price in unemployment...