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...major issue. An important theme of his papacy has been the danger of man becoming the "slave of things." He has frequently preached that in affluent nations, materialism, selfishness and consumerism close the "horizons of the spirit." According to the TIME poll, an impressive 76% of Catholics and 56% of Protestants think that "Americans in particular should pay attention" to the Pope's words on materialism. Some 56% of Catholics also say the Pope's warnings are relevant to their own lives, though only 33% of Protestants think...
These days he pounds away at American business. Corporate behavior must change, declares Jackson. "They're getting slave labor abroad," he says, "at the expense of jobs here." He urges federal penalties and incentives to force corporations to stop. Audiences like the argument. So effective is Jackson with America's workers that organized labor, long hostile to Jackson, is beside itself. His bravado raises a tough question: How much does Jackson really know? He has no ready information supply, but rather sucks up ideas and facts as he goes along. Jackson's grasp of voters' emotions is uncanny and exceeds...
...dignitaries could hardly overlook the ironies and injustices embedded in the Constitution. Philadelphia Congressman William H. Gray, who is black, recalled that one direct legacy of the Great Compromise was the provision demanded by sparsely populated Southern states that each slave be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation. "But because the framers knew the inevitability of justice . . ." said Gray, "this nation has made such progress...
...such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which . . . put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage . . . Indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes. Neither slaves nor women could hold office, serve on juries, or bring suit in their own names . . . It is true, of course, that the position of women . . . has improved markedly in recent decades. Nevertheless, it can hardly be doubted that . . . women still face pervasive . . . discrimination in our educational institutions...
...weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. Speaking to a lawyers' group in Hawaii, Marshall said the document had been "defective from the start." The fact that Marshall is the great-grandson of a slave sharpened his point...