Word: unjust
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...enlisted in the military (a few others have children who are officers). If Congressional hawks are getting their families out of military service because they can afford to provide their children with better options, then the war in Iraq starts to look not just ill-advised but downright unjust. Suddenly Bush and his cronies start to look like the pampered pansies, while anti-war liberals can claim to be representing the underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people who fight in unjust wars don’t have any other choice. If that’s true, then...
...those who face execution and commute their sentences to life imprisonment without parole. Until the federal government or the states ban the death penalty, governors should have the courage to protest the travesty that is government-sanctioned execution. Governors are not automatons that must bend to the pressure of unjust laws. They more than any other individuals have the power to achieve true justice. Tookie Williams, before his execution, served as a prime example of why the death penalty should be abolished. Williams showed that even the cruelest criminals can be rehabilitated to exert positive influences outside their jail cells...
...told them to "go to hell." After witnesses testified about torture under his rule, he said he and his co-defendants were being treated inhumanely by not being allowed to shower, exercise or smoke. "This," Saddam declared, "is terrorism." Finally, he said he wouldn't "come to an unjust court." The next day, he did not show up. But it's not his Iraq anymore: the trial went...
...part of a stable, already be proving myself." While he doesn't speak more than a few words of Japanese, Gorgadze has clearly mastered the essential Japanese virtues of tact, deference and fatalistic perseverance. When asked whether he is outraged by the rule, whether he feels it is unjust, he offers a sheepish smile and says simply, "I try not to think about fair or unfair. For now, the rule is what the rule is, and there is nothing I can do about...
...righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance. God bless her soul, and may the light of liberation forever shine. ?By the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson...