Word: unjust
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After discussing his feelings with several ministers and rabbis, he concluded that "my religious beliefs compel me to regard the Vietnam war as immoral and unjust and I cannot contribute in any capacity to an immoral...
...factories during the day could return to the language, food and customs of the "Old Country" at night. Boston's North End retains this flavor to this day. In these Little Italies, non-resident landlords took advantage of the immigrant, overcharging him for sub-standard housing. This was unjust, but there were no laws to prevent it. For many, much of their 60-hour a week salary as a factory worker, often in what we would call sweatshops, went towards paying the rent. This forced women and children to work under many conditions. Education was also a goal for these...
...millions of Americans. Watching the Vikings and the Cowboys collide, many a football buff can relive those long-ago days when he played third-string tackle for David H. Hickman High School. To rob fans of these priceless moments because of the traumas which stadiums cause would be unjust indeed...
...Yale had broken a reasonable rule- such as academic eligibility- it would have deserved such punishment, and would have accepted it. But the two-year probation that the NCAA handed down yesterday is not only unjust, but intolerable, and the Ivies must call the Council's bluff...
CHANGE in a policy that is seen to have been misconceived and to have proved unjust is not defeatism. In the Church it would be called collective repentance. As a secular nation, suffused however with some scriptural ideals as a kind of convenantal constitutional commonwealth, America is the greater for acknowledging through us, an articulate loyal opposition, that we have unwittingly done a great wrong and must be prepared even to make reparations for our mistake. And at the same time, without illusion, we must remain or become realistic about the totalitarian ferocity of the other side as it emerges...