Word: inhumanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe Peck to be a sincere man. When he says, "Since 1968, something in the world has been happening which is inhuman, that makes you unable to breathe the same air," he really means it. But he is the sort of man who leads his name to intentions alone, whether those of half-baked films or a half-baked American Film Institute (of which he is a Trustee). And too many roads to futility are paved by such good...
...hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point (TIME, Feb. 14). Talking about the care in state custodial institutions generally, Willowbrook Director Jack Hammond says: "It's inhuman. We're treating the mentally retarded as if they have somehow offended society...
...ruled that the state cannot refuse to educate a child because he is mentally handicapped, and that decision is expected to encourage favorable decisions in suits now in preparation across the country. Federal Judge Frank Johnson Jr. in Alabama, citing the 14th Amendment, has struck a blow against the inhuman conditions in large institutions. His unusual decision last month laid down specific guidelines for upgrading services for both the mentally ill and the retarded...
...Portuguese have been in Africa since the 15th century enslaving blacks through the slave trade and through colonialism. The Portuguese propagandize their role in Africa as a "christianizing and civilizing mission" which in reality has meant inhuman oppression of Blacks for the economic benefit of a small ruling class of whites...
Garrett concludes his essay with a revisionist thought in which we concur. The goal of our movement should not be utopian. We want to establish a just human community, not the reign of inhuman perfection. We must accept ourselves. We are far from Angola and Vietnam, and though we share many of the goals of the guerrila fighters, we cannot, by force of will, evaporate that distance in an instant. We ask of ourselves, and of our friends, a beginning; a first commitment to the ideals of socialism. That is what George Orwell made...