Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised that Bishop Oxnam of Methodists does not speak for Evangelical Christianity. Our first effort is not to alleviate anti-Semitism or to hinder racial discrimination, as is the good bishop's, but to preach the gospel of salvation through the shed blood of Christ-the message of John Wesley which many Methodists and others seem to have forgotten. John Wesley preached "Ye must be born again" (John...
...ship 25 hours a day, passed out reams of literature, held foreign language courses daily, and generally showed their eagerness to promote International understanding and prevent future war. All these idealists, unhappily, seemed naively unaware of the economic conflicts which will probably cause another war. The pamphlets dealt with racial and religious misunderstandings, not with oil fields in Arabia...
...specific proposals I will make," he said, "will not set faction against faction, group against group. They will aim to join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part...
...undergraduate of sufficiently bland racial, religious and financial status awaits the call of brotherhood. The insufficiently bland will join the Commons Club . . . The college president turns resolutely away from the whole subject: these are matters of taste and congeniality for the boys to settle among themselves-and besides, the college could never afford to take over all that real estate at today's prices...
...took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...