Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even assuming that Congress had reason to conclude that some Communists would use union positions to bring about political strikes," Warren said, "it cannot automatically be inferred that all members share their evil purposes or participate in their illegal activities. We do not hold today that Congress cannot weed dangerous persons out of the labor movement...
...Brewster who perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against "the self-pity now popularly dubbed alienation," he praised the students' concern for social justice, but reminded them that "the ugliness of the radical" is no different from the "ugliness of the reactionary." Both share "the sin of arrogance," which is freedom's enemy. He concluded by revising Barry Goldwater's famous campaign dictum: "Intolerance in the name of freedom is no virtue; patience in the name of justice is no vice...
...their loss of freedom and self-respect and are bitter about the inequities of the law. "We are dealing with people who feel that there is no justice at all in meting out punishment," says Pastor Currens, chaplain at the Minnesota Women's Reformatory, and he tends to share the feeling. "If you steal an $18 dress, you can get 18 months in jail; but if you cheat for $100,000 on your income tax, you can get a suspended sentence and fine." Another constant concern is the prisoners' intense and persistent fear of dying in prison...
...female Tolstoys, Napoleons, Buddhas. But all of this is in our past, not our future; in our social, economic, political condition, not in our bodies; in our situation, not in our stars. In this we are like other depressed groups who have also not contributed their full share to the culture of mankind. The working classes, the Negroes, the Chinese peasants. But with the liberation and the equality of all of us, with the new fraternity and the new individuality, generations will grow up that will be great...
...Pawnbroker achieves such excellence precisely because Nazemann does have that capacity. His search for meaning becomes our own, and the understanding which he finds can also be ours if we are willing to share, if only vicariously, the immensity of his suffering...