Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton administration will be watching, as it searches for a new American response to the troubling situation of a possibly hostile and emerging superpower. We cannot hope to dictate the conditions of American engagement but we can hope to provide a forum for the moral voice of America, an insistence that the indecencies of the Chinese communist regime not be drowned out by the realpolitik of day to day political negotiation. For if we have learned anything from the last 60 years of the 20th century, it is that a corrupt and repressive government, if ignored or appeased, will only...
...service of a freedom we so freely enjoy, and we must show that prosperity and complacency do not go hand in hand. We must show that, secure in our freedom, we challenge our government not to appease, not to ignore, but to engage the Chinese government with a moral courage that it has failed to show thus far. --Simon J. DeDeo...
These men saw the world through the prism of evangelical Christianity. They could not conceive of a moral order outside the literal word of the Bible--I can't imagine one within it. On one level what they were saying frightened and disturbed me. But that did not obscure the fact that they seemed to be genuinely concerned, sincere people who believed they were speaking with compassion. Misguided yes; dangerous, certainly; but evil like I had been taught? I had to hesitate...
...such individual action is extremely difficult. This shunting of the place of individual action into the realm of moral and family life should not be viewed as a descent. Some, if not many, individuals may be better suited to other activities. They may be funny but not courageous, clever but not generous. However, whether they will it or not, these individuals now find that it is their conduct at home and in church that matters...
Demographics show, furthermore, that the cognitive and moral abilities of juvenile delinquents are disproportionately impaired by drug addiction, gang-mentality, developmental delays, mental illness, moral ambiguity, socialization in a culture of violence and psychological trauma often stemming from abuse or neglect. The story of the 15-year old New Jersey teenager charged with sexually assaulting and strangling an 11-year old neighbor boy is all too common: sexually assaulted by a pedophile, the teenager turned around and inflicted harm on someone even more helpless than himself...