Word: shame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mexico has been invaded before. Complained a Mayan of the Spanish conquistadors: "They shriveled up the flowers. Without knowledge, without valor, without shame, they had only come to castrate the sun. And the sons of their sons stayed among us, and we only received their bitterness...
...Negro, I, too, must bear my share of the shame and horror of Dr. King's untimely death. Whether I burn or kill (by God's grace, I hope to do neither), I am associated with those who do. And we dare to point indiscriminate accusing fingers at whites. The answer to whether Dr. King labored in vain will not be determined alone by the success or failure of civil rights legislation or by improvement of housing and economic opportunities for minorities, but also by the degree to which all of us, blacks and whites, are committed...
...their pride has been hurt. The racial amity they thought they had achieved has dissolved. What seemed reasonably liberal yesterday is denounced as paternalistic today. But if the Memphis papers have been unfairly singled out for attack, the grievances are small enough to have been remedied long ago. The shame is that it took a bitter strike and an assassination to bring them to attention...
...meant that they wouldn't want their kids to be as immoral as the people who today oppose revision of abortion laws, who harass and actually arrest a man for disseminating birth-control information, and who try generally to smother spontaneity--sexual or otherwise--and to perpetuate guilt and shame. I want my children to have higher "morals" than the present generation, too. I don't want to see them adhering to any double standard and immobilized by the hostilities which such hypocrisy engenders...
...Grief," "shock,""shame" - the words appeared over and over again in thenation's press after the assassination of Martin Luther King. "We are becoming in the eyes of the world, and to an alarming degree in fact," said the Louisville Courier-Journal, "a violent nation of violent people, given to a disregard for life that must shame decent people here and throughout the world." Most papers declared that it was time for a nationwide soul searching. The assassination"demands the most sober reflection," editorialized the Los Angeles Times, "the deepest national self-examination...