Word: unjustness
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...society ever paid its taxes happily or escaped arguments over who should pay how much. More than two millenniums ago, Plato wrote in The Republic that "when there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." It used to be a point of pride among most Americans that they acted like Plato's "just man." Throughout the first half of this century, the income tax system that started in 1913 worked well because it worked virtually by itself. Everybody grumbled, but something like 95% or more...
...Adelstein '84, a student member of the committee, said yesterday the curriculum should not be considered easy because of the lack of distribution requirements. "This is an unfair and unjust assumption. Brown is one of the most rigorous things. I have ever been through he said, adding. "Freedom is not the same thing as leniency...
Jones delivers his performance with commanding intensity. He has accepted his place in an unjust society with humility, but still maintains tremendous pride and hope. He caters to the capricious Hallie not out of obedience, but out of empathy for the troubled...
...open non-registrant, and I agree that conscientious resisters must be willing to accept any punishment for their violation of a law. But accepting punishment is not the same as docility in the face of an oppressive state. It does not preclude continued resistance of any unjust measures promulgated by that state. I would embrace punishment in the spirit of these words of Gandhi's: "We seek arrest because the so-called freedom is slavery." I would hope to show the way to true freedom, not the sort of freedom that seeks to enlist men in a war machine that...
...spirit of this law by compensating for lost funds would constitute "disrespect for the law," disregard for "social order." But law and order are not absolute edicts from above, to be unquestionably obeyed. They are human processes, determined only by informed, conscientious assent and dissent. If a law is unjust, I believe it must be resisted, so that higher laws may be allowed naturally to take effect. I encourage Harvard to show its concern for just legal process by negating the effect of this insidious measure. Kenneth Hale-Wehmann...