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As befits a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King has often taken as his text the words from the Sermon on the Mount: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." But in...
Fear aroused by melodrama is "paranoid." It is the feeling that "all things living and dead are combining to persecute us." "Victorian melodramatic novelists made use of bad weather, but to heighten the audience's fear the playwright must substitute outrageous coincidence."
The issue is whether the committee uses its powers as an investigating body to silence critics--as Wilkinson's defense claims. Apologists for the majority's decision insist that it does not give the committee authority to subpoena and humiliate anyone who publicly attacks its actions; the argument runs that...
The list of welcome changes does not end here. Attorney-General Wyman has rejected another term after his present one ends on Friday. For the last seven years he has used the power of his office and of public opinion to persecute dissent in a manner not only contemptuous of...
Baptists are a peculiar breed, and I have told Jewish rabbis, "You'll never understand Baptists. They will never persecute people of other religious faiths. They persecute one another." Personally, I think that's good for all concerned. It makes the Baptists a hardy people. Also, where there...