Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...
...college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure carried its own marks of perpetually since the outraged townspeople, in session assembled during the summer vacation, summarily--and the students claimed unconstitutionality--deprived the latter of the suffrage...
...foolish as to think that the war between Bolivia and Paraguay to being fought with South American armaments. It is difficult to see why the practice of selling munitions to countries hostile to one's own is act the highest treason, nor why it is not a crime against mankind to make war possible by supplying instruments to those countries unable to produce them of themselves...
...House of Bishops issued a pastoral affirming that: "We are bound by every solemn obligation to wage unremitting war against war. . . . Love of country must be qualified by love of all mankind: patriotism is subordinate to religion...
...democracy and constitutionalism are very plainly on the wane in every country in the world. It is a vast movement that swings away from an ideal that has dominated European life since the Council of Constance, the idea of liberty as the most worthwhile and important goal toward which mankind should struggle. Only temporarily interrupted by the triumph of the forces of royal absolutism, in the nineteenth century the idea of liberty became the great intellectual motivating force in economic as well as political and social life...