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...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...
...year later, Chavis and his followers, eight of them high school students, were indicted for conspiracy and unlawful burning. "None of us had anything to do with it," Chavis told TIME'S Jay Rosenstein on the eve of the new hearing. "My role in Wilmington was to preach nonviolence...
...less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll. Bryant is fond of quoting Leviticus, which calls homosexuality an abomination. Gays respond that the singer is arbitrary about which biblical injunctions to preach. Her husband, for instance, regularly violates Leviticus' admonition against shaving. Anyway, says Gay Writer Arthur Bell: 'Leviticus is as relevant to the times as Little Women...
...plan to take a little church in Alabama, Father, preach the gospel, turn bread into flesh, forgive the sins of Buick dealers, administer communion to suburban housewives...