Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even if you cannot find it within your heart to defend the rights of innocent little children and heroic, helpless men like Cardinal Martyr Mindszenty* can you not have the charity not to cast upon them still another stone...
...Atlantic pact would be meaningless unless the European allies were able to defend themselves when attacked. They had the will to do this, and the manpower; they did not have the weapons. Only the U.S. could provide the weapons soon enough. U.S. refusal to provide them would have a shattering effect on Western Europe's morale...
...Obviously, it would be ridiculous for anyone to be loyal to those people who do him harm and wish him evil. Such people are his enemies. Even animals recognize their enemies and make war on them or at least defend themselves...
Joseph Stalin once asked a scornful question: "How many divisions has the Pope?" An answer was prepared last week. Pius XII decreed excommunication for Roman Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism." Those Catholics who "enlist in or show favor to the Communist Party" and those who "publish, read or disseminate" Communist publications would be denied the sacraments...
After he returned to Georgia to practice law, he was engaged to defend a 19-year-old Communist named Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested for leading an unemployment demonstration. "This case," said Davis, "was the turning point of my whole life. In the course of trying it, I was made the victim with my client of the worst kind of treatment against Negroes. The judge referred to me and my client as 'nigger' and 'darky'* and threatened many times to jail...