Word: inhumane
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...General Court of Massachusetts in 1921. Milton admits that there are certain things essentially evil which "no law can permit if it intends not to unlaw itself". Our Act says that the Commissioner of Public Safety "shall approve such films or parts thereof as are not obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, or such as tend to debase or corrupt morals or incite to crime." Can any law permit the things herein prohibited without unlawing itself? In an appeal from an Ohio case it was contended that such regulation infringed the principle of free, speech; but the Supreme Court of the United...
...thought-production the more active minds of our enemies?" If one of our brave boys thinks that his toe hurts him, how can he know that it is only the "wish" of someone far away, perhaps across the channel. The use of propaganda is denounced as immoral and inhuman...
...civilization, and the world cannot fail to aid us now that we stand helpless and alone. As to Turkey, if the United States wishes to help that criminal government, then we must look elsewhere for support. Of all the countries in the world, Turkey is most barbarous, most inhuman...
...convinced that the existence of an iniquitous system of commercial exploitation and of the most inhuman atrocities in the Congo Free State, has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. We are confirmed in this opinion by the understanding that you have recently received from our Consul General in that country, an official report establishing the charges which have been brought against Leopold's government...
...Union last evening, a pettion against the fearful atrocities that are now being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting his life work, that the pettion has been started. If enough mon can be induced to sing, it will be forwarded...