Word: morality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Eugene McCarthy is neither exclusively courageous nor foolhardy. Rather, in his uncompromising and unselfish honesty, he transcends these rather theatrical concepts as both an American and politician. He is the only presidential candidate who vigorously and sincerely attacks, in depth and on all fronts, the evergrowing administrative moral-political dichotomy, which so greatly alarms the nation today...
...ever there were a transcendent Negro symbol, it was Martin Luther King. Bridging the void between black despair and white unconcern, he spoke so powerfully of and from the wretchedness of the Negro's condition that he became the moral guidon of civil rights not only to Americans but also to the world beyond. If not the actual catalyst, he was the legitimizer of progress toward racial equality. His role and reputation may have been thrust upon him, but King was amply prepared for the thrust...
...From his early sermons to his letter from a Birmingham jail, from the epic address at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington to his acceptance speech at the Nobel ceremonies, King's rhetoric rang richly with both the ageless cadences of Negro spirituals and the moral immediacy of the civil rights struggle. His voice was for his time and beyond...
Durban was divided into sections for whites, Indians, coloreds, and Bantus (Negroes), and Dr. Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably...
During the last four years King's tactics wore less well than his moral vision. The movement outgrew the original focus of his energy on the South. King's year of urban organizing in Chicago was a chronicle of unproductive frustrations. The poor peoples' march on Washington he was planning for this Spring was tactically a last stand--a test of whether he had become an anachronism as a Black leader...