Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laws he will obey and which he will disobey. "In war, and in the court of justice, and everywhere," Socrates told Crito before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust." For each man unilaterally to veto the law would create anarchy-a kind of immorality of its own. The precedent of Nuremberg, it might be added, applied only to the high officials of the Nazi government, those who had substantial freedom. The ordinary officer or soldier was not held responsible...
...there are some laws, even in a democratic society, that are so unjust that any man of conscience and determination cannot obey them. Segregation laws that discriminate against race are the best recent example in the U.S. Opponents of the war would say that service in Viet Nam is another. In that case, the conflict between the two arguments is in a sense insoluble, and the answer is not at all satisfactory: the law must be disobeyed, but the law's penalty must be accepted. That is the solution of the Thoreaus, the Gandhis and the Kings...
...whether its home country is a member of the U.N. or not-is entitled to be accredited, regardless of political considerations, as long as he maintains a professional status." President-elect Warren Rogers, of the National Press Club in Washington, wrote Thant that he was "astonished at this arbitrary, unjust and admittedly politically motivated step...
...Chiao was pointing at Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik. "If you are man enough, you will do it. But if you have a guilty conscience and an unjust cause, you will not dare to do so, because although you appear to be tough outwardly, you are in fact timid inwardly. We are certain that you will not dare to do so. Is this not true? Please reply...
Fleming commented yesterday in an interview with the Michigan Daily that he thought the charges of failure to implement the plan were unjust. "We talked with HEW some months ago and erased a few questions that had been left standing, but as far as we know there is no further problem," he said...