Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pious atrocity infuriated Voltaire, and he sent off a blizzard of letters demanding details. "Ah, monsters," he cried in a letter to the judges of Calas, "you owe it to men to account for the blood of men." In a fury compounded of old age, pessimism, anticlericalism and a passion for justice, he summoned the attention of all Europe to the case, until at last Louis XV reversed the verdict against the Calases and, in so doing, crippled with shame the official persecution of the Huguenots...
Answering a question from the audience, Nizer, one of the most successful trial lawyers in the United States, said he could not represent or "argue with passion or sincerity for a man if I despise him--if he is a Nazi or traitor or subversive...
...have nothing to conceal," cried God, "from those deeps of your passion...
Secondly, Negroes do not know liberals, that is, those white Americans who worry about the Negro with real social passion. Negroes do not want to know or understand these whites who are certainly neither less corrupt nor more good than others. Negroes have learned how much more easy and comforting is the stereotype, indeed the caricature. We all complain of 'the ghetto." One admirable quality of liberals has been their attempt to expand their understanding to bridge the social gap, while anti-liberals have done little to expand theirs in the other direction. Perhaps the anti-liberals are only caught...
Personality Change. By their very lack of passion at the new realities, European statesmen proved that there is still a lot of life in deep-rooted nationalism, whether De Gaulle's or anyone else's. The Communists had found out the same thing in Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. There were differences: Russia had tried to impose a unity, and Western Europeans had hoped to evolve into a unity by democratic means and for mutual benefit. Western Europeans still insist that the idea of Europe will carry the day, but at the moment there...