Word: compassioner
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The CORE people continued to yell, and Secret Servicemen stirred uneasily. Johnson cut the ribbon, then stood straight and unsmiling while a Marine band played the national anthem. Secret Service Chief James Rowley removed his hat-but he held it with his left hand and kept his right ominously in...
Eternal Luster. In a devout send-off for the idol of Avalokiteshvara, Lord of Compassion (see opposite page), Nepalese monks sprinkled it with holy vermilion powder and packed it in flowers before sending it off to New York. The cast bronze has swelling contours that are not obscured by excessive...
"Militant" rights workers argue both that the majority of Northerners are hypocritical about civil rights and that defensive violence could be a salutary example to the country. If the first statement is true, as it may well be, then the "salutary" violence will repulse these wavering allies, who feel compassion...
The second half of the violence proposition, advanced more glumly, is that violence in Mississippi seems inevitable. In the limited sense that rights workers and Negro passers-by may be beaten and slaughtered by poor whites and local police, that is certainly true. Such slaughter arouses indignity and compassion for...
The great divide, however, lies between such slaughter and violence as we have used the term here--the violence of the racial clash. Because the clash evokes confusion rather than compassion, it is the violence rather than the social indignity that popular opinion demands be ended. Tactically such clashes must...