Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voting is, of course, a political and not a moral act. But it is a myth that in this election one can have political impact only by voting for Humphrey, Nixon, or Wallace and it is a myth that by refusing to support one of them, a voter is sacrificing political influence for the sake of a clear conscience...
None of these actions is equivalent to wasting a vote; for this year, as never before, newsmen and the major candidates themselves are going to be watching the size of the protest vote. Not only, in other words, is it possible to retain moral integrity by this course of action, but one can also effectively register opposition to the inadequacies of all three major candidates and to the backward looking American system which produced and sanctions them...
...issue is not the morality of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, but the simple Right of students to believe differently than SDS. To reject the right of some students to belong to ROTC, is to deny their right, their freedom, to believe as they want, and feel they must; it is to deny them the right to support U.S. involvement in Vietnam. This negation of freedom puts SDS in the position of advocating suppression. The SDS should remember that no matter what moral superiority they claim, they have no more right to suppress freedom than the U.S. government...
...Stephen Douglas's conception of a "democratic" solution to the problem of the expansion of slavery before the Civil War. Under Douglas's plan, the white residents of the territorial areas (Nebraska and Kansas) would vote to decide whether slavery would be legal when the territories attained statehood. For moral men, there can be no "right" to suppress people fighting for social, political, and economic freedom, just as there is no "right" to enslave other...
...well to remember, as Wolfe says, that the religions we have today did not begin as the sets of moral precepts we know them as. They began with a new experience, and new ethics grew out of the new state of consciousness that this experience caused. It might be the direct experiencing of God say, or of Nirvana...