Word: preach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Here Comes Summer" [July 4] -excellent! Finally an interesting, in-depth article that does not discover a new American problem, ailment or cause to preach on. Nor does it present a view of America in trite, sugar-coated homilies-just reality, professionally spiced with some enjoyable, entertaining and individual perceptions...
...lives in foster homes, orphanages and 'reform' schools. Many children of the poor will attend second-rate segregated schools. And opposition remains strong against increasing [federal] benefits for impoverished mothers and children to grow up in a decent environment. I am appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a "right to life" that means, under present social policies, a bare existence in utter misery for so many poor women and their children...
...either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence in utter misery for so many." Justice William Brennan claimed the decision "seriously erodes" the principle, set forth by the court in its historic 1973 ruling, that it is unconstitutional for Government to interfere with a woman...
...family or friends with an un ashamed sentimental fervor that embarrassed some and amused others. Sometimes, the historian wrote, the President substituted a beguiling jargon for a program. The President explained at times that he would carry out liberal and reforming programs along conservative lines of action. He would preach a new morality...
Most Americans would call South Africa's treatment of blacks immoral, but we are in a poor position to preach on this: our own progress in race relations has been too slow and too uncertain. The message we should convey to South Africans is that, right or wrong, their system of apartheid cannot endure. A society based on white supremacy and the absolute separation of the races can survive no more than other institutions that were overtaken by changing worlds, including feudalism, divine-right monarchy, colonialism and laissez-faire capitalism. The most frightening thing about South Africa...