Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political opinion but in reality; this is an objective fact with ample documentation. I admit that some may think it is arrogant for me to assume I know what's right and wrong; nevertheless, I will venture to assert that the Contras' behavior is objectively wrong and no moral subjectivism can justify passively accepting...
...official version draws solely on the positive stereotype. A two-minute promo presumably filmed by the Athletic Department and aired during a televised Harvard football game showed the team captain, books under his arm, speaking as eruditely as possible on the moral advantages of a fine education and a non-scholarship team...
Thus the very debate over aid to the Contras is not in itself immoral merely because it involves the deaths of foreigners. There is a moral difference, at least initially, between inciting domestic violence and advocating international military action...
...Harvard does not realize that what is crucial about American companies in South Africa is not so much how they treat their employees, but what they produce, import, and invest in. What is crucial is the moral and political support they lend to that fossil of history, the most racist country on the face of this earth, South Africa." (Text of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's letter to President Bok, March...
...have little public discourse about moral choice. It is needed in classes, in professional organizations, in government. It should be open, not closed to all but special interest groups." (Sissela Bok, Lying, p.98...