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...possibility of a President-a former President-behind bars is personally repugnant to me," he said. "But I'm also caught with the proposition that no man should be above the law." Furthermore, letting the former President go free while his top aides went to jail would seem unjust...
...where does a "tight market system" come from except in the perpetuation--either through acquiesence or quiescence, the distinction is abstract--of unjust economic systems? How can student activism succeed--even if its successes will not be absolutely earth-shattering--if many students remain politically dormant? The rationalizations Riesman presents as prevailing student attitudes smack of circular, Catch-22 reasoning...
...Henry Kissinger's cloud burst, and he suddenly found himself in the Watergate storm. In an extraordinary, intensely emotional press conference in Salzburg, Austria, on the eve of Richard Nixon's trip to the Middle East, the Secretary of State vented his anger at what he considered unjust charges against his honor. He threatened, in imperial tones befitting a President, to resign...
...exploitation within prisons, that aspect of American society which DeFreeze knew best. DeFreeze first met his fellow SLA soldiers in Vacaville Prison in 1969 through a Black Culture Association which brought black prisoners together with white, non-prison radicals. In this sense, the SLA grew out of a genuinely unjust system; in view of its prison origins, the SLA's paranoia seems less surprising...
...cost to other groups in the society? Just how agonizing these questions can be is seen in the ongoing debate about quotas and compensatory efforts. Where liberals like Bell once opposed discrimination because of "its denial of a justly earned place to a person on the basis of an unjust group attitude," now a different proposition is being argued. Merely being disadvantaged-by being black or female or young or Indian or whatever-entitles you to a favored place that is representative of the numbers in your category. The 1972 Democratic Convention went askew on that proposition, and the party...