Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color ever truly disappears from U.S. politics, as religion already has to a large extent, it will only be because the race issue is kept in perspective by black and white politicians alike. As Ed Brooke has said: "If I did confine myself to Negro problems alone, there would hardly ever be another Negro elected to public office except from a ghetto?and justifiably...
...minister, believes that Christianity has wrongly stressed the "sinfulness and depravity" of man, and that Africa needs a more positive faith emphasizing human goodness. Africans, he contends, never "really knew what misery was until the missionary came. They never made misery a cult of life, which is what bad religion taught them...
...aspect of a major revision of religious teaching that involves virtually all U.S. churches. Several other Catholic publishers are bringing out similar new catechisms of their own, and many Protestant denominations have drastically redone their Sunday-school texts in recent years with the same goal in mind: making religion a reality for the child rather than an abstraction...
Just Desserts. The pair of lawyers could have-perhaps should have-done their routine at the Palace. During one involved inquisition, Bryan quoted a Buddhist monk to the effect that Buddhism is an "agnostic" religion. Agnostic Darrow wanted to know what the monk looked like. "How tall was he?" Replied Bryan: "I think he was about as tall as you, but not so crooked...
Most Wellesley girls would like to get married only after working awhile after the completion of college. Sixty per cent of the girls would not marry a man of a different race, while only 26 per cent would refused to marry somebody of another religion. Sixty per cent of the girls reported on the questionnaire that before attending Wellesley they had never been in a class with two or more Negroes...