Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outlining the philosophy of communism, Hopper asserted that Russian society is based on human labor as the criterion of value. According to the Russian belief, he said, mankind will be able to reach unprecedented heights through sublimation of the profit motive...
...Forty-four million Italians are marching in unity behind our Army because the blackest injustice is being attempted against them-that of taking from them their place in the sun! ... It is against this Italian people to which mankind owes its greatest conquests-this people of heroes, of poets, of saints, of navigators, of COLONIZERS-that the world dares to threaten 'sanctions.' . . . Italy! Italy! entirely and universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory...
Libertarian John William Davis, at the Founder's Day exercises of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn: "A mystical faith, similar to that of uncivilized mankind for their idols, is springing up around us. a faith by which we are called upon to submit all our problems to a being called the Government. . . . There have been people who lived rent free. Their economic status was perfectly secure. But they lived where other men told them to live and they worked where other men told them to work. They had security. They were the slaves of the South before the Civil...
That night youths of Benito Mussolini's smartly uniformed Fascist Balilla held flaming torches aloft to light the vast, half-ruined Colosseum. In the Arena, where wild beasts once tore Christian martyrs to bits, the 15,000 veterans prayed in unison for a solid hour "for forgetfulness by Mankind of the hatreds of the World War and the re-establishment of Good Will among all peoples...
...more than a year, Dr. Carrel this week published a book into which he packed the essence of his experiences, philosophy and intuition as a doctor and as a man. He called it Man, the Unknown.* Its theme is that Science has itemized most of the facts of mankind but has never added them up into the total of man's huge potentialities...