Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs, we are to put national interests first, and, hopefully and incidentally, moral interests as well. Do you not, by such conclusions regarding the "moral purpose" of limited war, lay bare the hypocrisy by which we justify our action in time of war? The depth of the evil about us is not a call to retribution but to greatness. Are we not to be called atheists when we believe and act upon the belief that there are gulfs between "right" men and "wrong" men so great that no bridge can be thrown across them? Must we accept...
...accuse U.S. marines of "sexual exhibitionism" on the perimeter of the Guantanamo naval base. A few days later, on CBS-TV's Face the Nation, Guevara loudly owned up to promoting Communist revolution in Latin America. "When people are fighting for their freedom, it would not be moral for us not to assist them. We have taught some of them to acquire military knowledge. There will be fighting in every country of Latin America." On and on it went, with Che making a special point of accusing Russia and its East European partners of being "accomplices of imperialist exploitation...
...distributing a phamphlet questioning the "moral basis and factual content" of a University lecture, the Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee may have violated an "unwritten rule" saleguarding academic freedom, an Administration source said yesterday...
...this is undoubtedly our society's last chance to infuse into itself a stream of people whose moral vision has been--relatively, at least--preserved and sharpened by exclusion from opportunities for self-betrayal as well as advancement. The Negro is the only American whose loyalty to his country has not made him an accomplice in a succession of dubious enterprises from Cuba to Southeast Asia. If the vision of the Negro is sometimes distorted by hatred, it is seldom blurred by guilt...
...city of banalizing values in which I grew up, a white amongst ambitious whites--not by others but essentially by myself betrayed--the saving character of a people who have held onto the roots of uniqueness, moral courage, political bravado and intellectual guts provide me today with one solid base to stand on, one place of life worth vitally living, one neighborhood where individual honesty and verbal directness still exist...