Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation is still unpredictable. But one thing is clear the people are no longer the same people. They have laughed together at the emperor's new dress. It is difficult to fool or menace or manipulate them in the same old manner. Times have changed. A new chapter in Chinese history has started. Modern democracy, a manifest destiny, is moving from the west to the east. People have learned that, instead of yielding their power to a handful of people to act under their name against their will, they must take control of their own destinies...
...important thing is to continue the awakening in a country like China with a long history of absolute monarchy, political power was deliberately structured to make authority irreplaceable. People unaccustomed to democracy could easily feel perplexed at the vacuum of power and unable to fill in with their own force. But this is something they must learn if democracy is what they really want...
Since "Widener is one of the largest research libraries that is totally accessible, I would be most reluctant to kill that one thing that makes us uniquely superior," Feng says...
...today as the "majority in the periphery." Our voices used to be relegated to the remote periphery of the political discourse. Now I think they are being heard at the center. And I think those farthest from the seats of power tend to be nearer to the heart of things. It was true in the civil rights movement and in the antiwar movement. Now the same thing is true of arms control...
...there are things in us today that we must bury, just as the Soviets are trying to bury Stalinism, and the Chinese Maoism. Probably the hardest thing for us is going to be the understanding and feeling -- because it doesn't live in the American mind so much as it lives under the American skin, deep in the American gut -- that somehow the U.S. is morally superior to every other country in the world. This innocence about our misdeeds, not understanding that we've been accomplices in the very evils we profess to abhor, that's got to be buried...