Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free speech. More important, a policeman who can ignore abuse is not only a good law officer, not only a moral victor, but a living symbol of a free society strong and calm enough to withstand any challenge. But this takes the kind of police and civilian leaders who respect the Constitution-and set the right tone for cops on the front line. Mayor Richard Daley hardly helped with his "shoot to kill" order after Chicago's Negro riots last April, or by implying before the Democratic Convention that protesters were hoodlums or Communists...
...real alternative to the right-wing slogan, "Support your local police." In its proper definition, support would mean paying higher taxes for higher wages to attract better policemen, and for modern equipment to match modern tasks. It would also mean a constant concern for constitutional rights-and utmost respect for the cop who guards freedom as zealously as he upholds order...
...ministry." But if he ever does switch to political crusades, his views would resemble those of his friend the candidate. Like Nixon, Graham considers that the Supreme Court has "gone too far" in favoring criminals. He supports Black Power, but only if it means "a feeling of self-respect," not violence or civil disobedience. He believes that the demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in Chicago (where he also gave an invocation) were "wonderful kids, idealists-but manipulated by a small, well-organized hard core that wanted a confrontation." The Chicago police, he says, "overreacted," but he adds that...
...Self-respect...
Someone asks Eric why he wants to be like Howard Hawks. His answer: Hawks saw the world as increasingly dark and complicated and somehow emasculating, and considered self-respect the key to a life style we do not understand anymore. Also something about the way Hawks employs objects in the background...