Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose bravery confronts us with the need to answer. Read: "The aim of art, the aim of life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, he is suppress that freedom, temporarily." And read; "One even have to fight a in the of a quarter-truth." Rebellion neither nor accepts rebellion against anything that minishes man, rebellion not in name of what will happen but what might happen--this is wager of Albert Camus. As a journalist, as an Underground fight...
...senior year. Birch organized a secret "Fellowship Group" and set out to suppress a mildly liberal trend at Mercer. He and twelve colleagues collected examples of "heresy" uttered by faculty members (example: a reference to evolution), whipped up support among Georgia's Baptist clergy, finally forced the school to try five men on the charge. Mercer eventually dismissed the cases, but not before admonishing 75-year-old Dr. John D. Freeman, a world-famous Baptist leader, for using a theologically "unsound" textbook. That summer Dr. Freeman quietly retired from Mercer. Says a professor: "It broke...
...very nature of our democracy that efforts to suppress free speech create greater free speech," Wilkinson claimed. "For every voice silenced in jail, a thousand new voices will be raised...
...Reports, hadn't decided to pick up Harvest of Shame. Dismayed at the damage that a European showing of the film could do to the image of America that he was now pledged to promote abroad, USIA Director Murrow called the BBC in a vain effort to suppress the show. Harvest of Shame, said Murrow, had been for domestic use only...
...Monday evening Pierre Salinger told the Women's National Democratic Club that there is "nothing more vital in government than the freest possible flow of information." Two days later it was revealed that the newly-sworn director of the United States Information Agency had attempted (unsuccessfully) to suppress the showing in Britain of a controversial television documentary on the plight of migrant laborers in this country...