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...preached congressional supremacy over the Executive, and as the man who sought Andrew Johnson's impeachment, Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens won Southern hatred for his 1867 Reconstruction laws (and for the report that his colored housekeeper was also Bachelor Stevens' mistress). Stevens matched hatred with hatred. His watchword: "Humble the proud traitors...
...bitter. But we participated in negotiations for peace without any idea of penalties or reparations. I say this merely to establish it in your minds. In spite of events ten years ago, we have not approached Japan in a spirit of hatred or unpleasantness. Friendly association is our watchword...
Three months have passed since Soviet tanks smashed the barricades of Budapest -but the unfinished revolution burns on in Hungarian hearts. Inside Hungary a new rebel watchword is spreading from factory to hamlet: "MUK," from the first letters of the words for "In March we shall rise again...
...conductor, he made fidelity to the composer his watchword. From the time he first mounted a podium as a "beardless bambino" of 19 (in 1886), no man ever swayed him from what he felt in his heart to be right, but in judging what was right, he relied not only on heart, but on his extraordinary taste and ear. His goal was perfection, and he sought it with the fervor of a knight seeking the Grail. In his own mind he never achieved it, but through the years, his music became ever cleaner and simpler. He was the ever-inquiring...
...matter what his color, ever make me hate him.' . . . Hypothetical Negro Faulkner's big decision: "I would be a member of the N.A.A.C.P., since nothing else in our U.S. culture has yet held out to my race that much hope. But I would remain only [if] the watchword of our flexibility [were] decency, quietness, courtesy, dignity; if violence and unreason come, it must not be from...