Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...first war in which we have admitted to the use of very special services because of the civil, communal, and ideological character of the resistance...
...tragic polarization of the American people which we now sense impending, let us not aggravate the situation by disparaging the civil loyalty and trusting rally-to-the-head-of-State on the part of all those fellow citizens whose instinctive patriotism and whose military and quasi-military formations became visible and audible on Tuesday last. It is our responsibility even more than theirs in the struggle between that kind of patriotism and what most of us would consider the higher patriotism of prophetic self-criticism that the flag of our American commonwealth be neither abandoned by us nor ripped apart...
...self-control and our sorting out of licit and illicit actions and sanctions for our position are now much more difficult than in the civil rights movement, Phase I. When this Phase I came to an end with the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was especially meaningful to have the American flag fly alongside the UN flag and the Christian flag in the funeral procession in the streets of Montgomery because the States Rights banner of the Confederacy had been the overt or covert symbol of the opposition to integration then being enforced by the Attorney General...
...that very fixity of high moral purpose under the slogan of no more Munichs has in fact, because of our preoccupation with civil war in Indochina, brought it to pass that ironically precisely the Czech frontiers were once again forcibly crossed at the very moment when there was such substantial hope that Czechoslovakia might prove to emerge for the good of all mankind as an irenic mediator between the Communist and the Western political and economic systems. One can scarely imagine a more damaging consequence of our government's alleged sole rationale for the Vietnam War in terms of respect...
...evade our responsibility by trying to make the Saigon government do what we with them could not. Nor can we use that unpopular government of ex-French officers to cover our retreat and prolong the agony of their people. Nor can we honorably leave those military leaders and their civil servants exposed to reprisals...