Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Booker T. Washington once told members of his race not to strive for social recognition. The noted Negro educator further advised his people to give up aspirations toward political power, complete civil rights, and higher education...
...speak disrespectfully of these loyalties; but they make Sir William's Toryism equivocal and they perhaps explain the shrillness of his note. . . . When he went to the Home Office he went with soul aflame to cleanse the social sewers. Drink, gambling, night clubs, all the brood of darkness should know that at last a real St. George was abroad in Merry England. But no blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does...
...transfixed newsgatherers last week with a calm smoldering glance, answered their questions about the new Proscription Law (TIME, Nov. 15). Was it not, hinted the representatives of the press, a little persecutory to deport non-Fascist offenders to "penal islands" in the Mediterranean and Adriatic for "political and social crimes...
...formulated a definition. Soon it boomed from his heavy lips: "Persecution! Recall the meaning of that word. Persecution only begins where no reasonable proportion is observed between the force used in compulsion and the importance of the interests which it seeks to control. Deportation for single political or social offenders has existed at all times. We do not send these people abroad to ferment in other countries, but merely put them in a political and moral quarantine. We are perfectly justified in doing so, but take care that where at all justifiable mercy shall season justice...
...prime recommendation, however, is short daily periods for discussing Ethics by the case system. He bravely admits that he cannot hold with "the pedagogic fashion of our time . . . against the attempt to influence anybody in any direction." In short he believes, as his final paper on Ethics for social workers shows, in human amelioration under prevailing political, social and economic systems. He is one whose greatest pleasure, short of playing in a stringed quartet, lies in discovering, exhibiting and nourishing warm flesh on the grey bones of platitudes...