Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House, four professors and 150 students discussed the political and moral implications of ROTC's presence and the communications between students and the Faculty...
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and member of the CEP, said that the administration and Faculty has responded to the legitimate demands of students and that "a decision will not be made under moral duress." Wilson blamed the participants in the sit-in for preventing the Faculty meeting from taking place...
...indicates both the shabby content of its motivation in this week's decision and the idiocy of its general development plans. Until Radcliffe commits itself to recruiting other disadvantaged groups, it is rather difficult to believe that Mrs. Bunting's promises to black Cliffies stemmed from anything with greater moral depth than a desire to relieve immediate pressure...
...that of "striking the balance between the state's right to protect itself and its citizens, and the individual's right to protest, dissent, and oppose." And, with extraordinary civil libertarian vigor, Fortas contends that the U.S. government "recognizes and has always recognized that an individual's fundamental moral or religious commitments are entitled to prevail over the needs of the state...
...book's thesis, insofar as it relates to this question, is not only that the individual citizen has a duty to act on moral grounds, even if his action is illegal, but that the Court must respect this duty and uphold it. The Court, Zinn says, must "stand for the law sometimes, for justice always." This is an exciting, romantic, beautiful idea: that we might order our society on morality and so live together in peace. But Zinn has not carried his theory to its logical end. If he wants the Court to recognize his right to oppose laws...