Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wake of the Sept. 11 attacks America has been overcome by fear, sorrow and anger. In the midst of these emotions, what we need most is clarity. America must ask itself whether it is reasonable to ask every other country in the world to crack down on its terrorists when we won’t do it ourselves. The country needs to come to a consensus about the balance between civil liberties and national security. Are we willing to tolerate organizations that facilitate the murder of abortion workers? Will we allow armed militias to exist? Will we hold domestic terrorist...
Describing hip-hop as “rooted in struggle,” West talked about black music’s unique ability to “caress our bruises” in this “moment of deep sadness and sorrow...
...fight must take advantage of unpredictable changes in the balance of national interests. My enemy's friend one day is my enemy's enemy the next?and that opens the door to an opportunistic friendship or alliance. The problem is that such overnight love affairs can lead to big sorrow in the future...
...democracy embodies and an unflinching determination to defend those ideals through whatever means are most effective. If diplomacy fails—if the call to arms proves inescapable and we must kill to make the world free—patriotism does not prevent us from hanging our heads in sorrow. But it does forbid us from wringing our hands and walking away. And I think all those war-crazed lunatics who, like me, have lined up behind a president supposedly hell-bent on inflicting Mosaic revenge (lunatics like Al Gore ’69, Tom Daschle, and Dick Gephardt...
...Balkans and Africa. Yet, where has been our fundamental love, not for principle, but for humanity itself? Shouldn’t that love stir us in times like these, softening our hearts of their outrage and disgust, so that we may know the depths of our shared sorrow...