Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially when he says that a woman's place is with her husband, and that she should keep quiet and cover her head in church. I just can't go along with him on that." Carter also has read deeply from the works of religious thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Earth, Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard and quotes from them. In particular, he is fond of this sentence from Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world...
...that address, Carter said in part: "One of the sources for my understanding about the proper application of criminal justice and the system of equity is from reading Reinhold Niebuhr ... The other source of my understanding about what's right and wrong in this society is from a friend of mine, a poet named Bob Dylan. After listening to his records ... I've learned to appreciate the dynamism of change in a modern society." Carter went on to scold the lawyers and judges in the audience for not caring more about the legal and moral rights of society's underdogs...
...totality of Jimmy Carter's pilgrimage to power is its most remarkable feature. He is a man of many parts, but he has given heart, mind, soul and smile to winning the presidency. He has enlisted wife, children, sister, aunt, mother and sometimes God and Reinhold Niebuhr. There is almost no part of Carter left over for a real laugh. If Scoop Jackson has held a conversation longer than three minutes recently on a subject other than himself and politics, it has not been recorded...
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...
...farmers, factory-workers, and bums. The spiritual nub of their "downward mobility" was a thirst to encounter the world differently from the way a newly-minted upper middle class professional does--to encounter it with reverence, in dialogue, and with some of that delight, that "excellency of childhood" (Reinhold Niebuhr) without which all the wellsprings of human endeavor run dry. They felt that, if permanently cast as "professionals" and "clients," as managers and managed, they and the poor were but two sides of a counterfeit social coin, clasped together in necrophilic embrace, each with its own hurts derived from...