Word: unjust
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...easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations—even to light fires and throw stones—for personal relief or for exploitation,” he said in his penultimate Baccalaureate speech...
...came from Iowa and had confidence in his midwestern idea of America. He couldn’t believe we could be involved in an unjust war,” Bethell says. “Pusey got locked into defending the war, even as the Faculty and his deans around him opposed...
...history. By this I mean living not only with little regard for the larger destinies of mankind but also outside the stories, lessons and issues that locate a people within significant patterns of human thought. Now a group of savage zealots has flung us back into history, and however unjust the impetus, we could make use of the experience...
Nobody should be kept from doing anything without good reason. But it takes an act of mental gymnastics to leap from that principle to the conclusion that any group-based restriction is unjust. If Harvard wishes to trivialize the importance of military service by turning its back to the cadets and midshipmen of ROTC, it ought at least to justify its position with more than mere assertion. ROTC detractors can only win their case by proving that prohibiting homosexual behavior is unnecessary and persuading us that we should be more worried about whatever harms arise from that prohibition than about...
...Vietnam era were mostly drawn from the comfortable middle classes, and perhaps there were many in their ranks who joined the movement just for the drugs and the free love. That doesn’t even begin to discredit their message that the U.S. war in Vietnam was an unjust and ill-conceived adventure that killed thousands of defenseless peasants and ravaged a country. Thirty years after the Vietnam War, history has vindicated them. Don’t ask an old peacenik. Ask Robert McNamara, one of the architects of the war in the Johnson administration. A few years...