Word: pacificist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fosdick was a longtime pacificist and once thundered to League of Nations delegates in Geneva that "the church has come down through history too often trying to carry the cross of Jesus in one hand and a dripping sword in the other." He energetically supported a host of social causes, and well after his retirement he continued to work against the war in Viet Nam and in behalf of the black population that lived in poverty not far from Riverside's neo-Gothic splendor. "Always take a job that's too big for you," he once proposed...
...gargantuan "demo" was as peaceful as its pacificist philosphy, as colorful as the kooky costumes and painted faces of its psychedelic "pot left" participants, and about as damaging to the U.S. image throughout the world as a blow from the daffodils and roses that the marchers carried in gaudy abundance. In an emotional speech before the League of Jewish Women in Atlanta last week, Vice President Humphrey-just back from two weeks in Europe-quoted Pope Paul VI as telling him: "America's moral power is being eroded by the manner in which your country is being interpreted...