Word: morales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ripped apart in the imminent encounter, even when we insist that the remarks about the moratorium and the mobilization by the former governor of this state and by the Vice-President are, because of the eminence of these spokesmen of administration policy, a more serious aggravation of the frightening moral schism in our society than the introduction of Vietcong symbols by youthful extremists on our side...
...uniqueness of the present conflict in American society is that, despite the failings of many earnest evangelists of individual repentance and moral purity, the prophetic conception of the righteous remnant of a nation is sufficiently strong among religious and secular people alike to enable us to participate in the most significant reversal of national policy on moral grounds ever compassed in so relatively short a time, given the unprecedented magnitude of our goal. Never before has such a large proportion of the population of any nation become so actively involved in reversing the policy of its head of state...
...have been at the polls and in our pleas from the podium and in the papers, yet are we inexorably swerving the policy of our nation. And as we do this in the streets and at the polls, let us in the sanctuary not minimize or disparage the moral ground on which our government has taken its stand. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the compassionate abandonment of the maxims of an isolationist fortress American. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the scrutiny of historic experience and on the resolution...
...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...