Word: unjust
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...such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats-even to light fires or throw stones-for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. to refuse to become frustrated and angry: to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair: and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long...
...Father Daniel Berrigan [Aug. 24] does not impress me. Someone who knowingly and deliberately breaks the law and then tries to evade the consequences of his actions is not a man of principle-he is a vandal. The moral force of his opposition to laws that he considers unjust comes when he accepts the responsibility and the consequences of his actions. As Thoreau stated in Civil Disobedience: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison...
...Just as promptly, the Senate reopened a vigorous debate. One of the most vociferous opponents is a Democrat who is frequently sympathetic to Administration causes. But North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. has long been convinced that much of the measure is "as full of unconstitutional, unjust and unwise provisions as a mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after a special meeting in Chicago, expressed reservations about parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan...
...islands' 69 bishops denounced widespread corruption and exploitation of the poor. "The failure of government is the failure of every citizen," read the bishops' statement. It went on to detail the governmental sins: "Bribery and extortion . . . illegal traffic in arms and their use to oppress the weak . . . unjust dispossession of farmers . . . the wanton destruction and pillage of homes as a display of force or vendetta . . . the miscarriage of justice through political stratagem...
AFTER a military coup brought Juan Velasco Alvarado to power in Peru 21 months ago, United States relations with that country almost degenerated into a cold war. Angered by what Peruvians called the "unjust enrichment" of the International Petroleum Co., Velasco seized the company's oilfields. Subsequently, Peru also took over U.S.-owned sugar lands. Only intervention by Richard Nixon stayed U.S. retaliation under the Hickenlooper Amendment, which would have imposed economic sanctions on Peru. Even so, the diplomatic climate was markedly frigid, and Peru went unabashedly seeking Russia's aid to play against its traditional ally...