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...Malcolm X, ex-Muslim and revolutionary black leader, was felled by assassins' bullets as he began a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. Fifty weeks after he had broken with the Black Muslims and had begun to emerge from a black nationalist approach to a Third World internationalist approach, he was shot down. Certainly, the fact that he was killed at such a crucial ideological turning point in his life and in the life of the black liberation movement was no coincidence. In commemorating that day ten years ago when Malcolm's life...
...forces that shaped Jackson included the prolabor, internationalist traditions of Washington State, and his close-knit family. Born May 31, 1912, he was the youngest of four children in a working-class family in Everett, a small mill town 28 miles north of Seattle. His Lutheran parents had emigrated from Norway in the 1880s; Father Peter was a cement worker, Mother Marie was a stern but loving matriarch who infused in her son a strong sense of right and wrong...
...sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual accountability. From there, he spins a personal philosophy of "naturalistic humanism," scientific, rational, ethical, democratic, and internationalist, in order of presentation...
Your characterization of Gerald Ford as an "internationalist" libels true internationalists. An internationalist, far from advocating America's responsibility to uphold international law-and-order, believes the best path to peace is through cooperation and communication. Ford's view that the U.S. "must be a force on a worldwide basis to try to maintain peace" is the kind of reasoning that got us into Viet...
...general, the new President retains the same internationalist outlook he acquired from his original mentor, the late Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. As Ford said during his confirmation hearings last November, "I think the United States, because of our influence, our assets, our principles, must be a force on a worldwide basis to try to maintain peace, to try to help disadvantaged nations. It makes a better world, and that helps us in the United States...