Word: openable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just back from living in Egypt, I was very pleasantly surprised by your open-minded, sensitive, even courageous reporting on Islam. I was inspired by what I saw of the Islamic way, a way that allows people to live and let live, apparently secure in the knowledge that Allah is with them and with all others they meet. Suzanne Grenager...
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal, as human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death...
...there, isn't it irrational to limit your moral concern only to those crimes which you have committed? These are the two arguments I've found to specialize the question of apartheid over the question of genocide. I'm left in admiration for President Bok's two open letters and in particular for his notion that the University has, not a moral neutrality, but a special mission that gives its own morals, and even its own politics to convey...
...question of the singularity of South African repression, that there is one lesson that overrides all the others, which is the lesson of powerlessness. I have heard, and I think it is shared by many of us, even many of us who have signed the letter, the open letter which was submitted, that there is not a great deal which we can do in an immediate sense to change the character of the South African regime. Nye's long chain is a real long chain, and I think none of us, or least not I, would deny it. I would...
...position of the open letter which has been submitted to you, seeks, and I believe strongly does do so, to reconcile these concerns, these differing, balanced understanding of a moral position for the University to take in the face of the South African regime and our own investments of stocks in that regime, in companies with stock in that regime. It is a moderate position, it is not a position of washing one's hands, although some have characterized it as such, it is not a position of self-righteousness. It is a position which seeks to come to terms...