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...must preserve the core of our heritage embodied in the Constitution. Our challenge is to pour into these ancient formulations the experience of each generation, to strike anew a balance between the necessities of state and the rights of the individual, between the security of the status quo and the aspirations of our minorities. Our tools are limited to reasoned elaboration, the collective wisdom of our founding fathers and the voice of an aroused conscience. We must strain our hearts and minds to apply the most enlightened human spirit we can muster, and pray that our choices prove...
...President's bluster and fuss over three years, he has not taken a single real step across that Rubicon of power, where there is risk, where the solution lies in moving determinedly ahead with no lines of retreat to the old comfortable campground of the status quo...
...toward a settlement of the Palestinian problem. If the situation is left to extremists on both sides, there will never be an agreement." He believes, however, that the establishment of new Jewish settlements on the West Bank shows that the Begin government is seeking only to maintain the status quo in order to tighten its grip over the occupied territories. "The settlement activity shows that Israel is not serious. Begin won't formally annex the West Bank," says Abu Zuluf, "because he doesn't want all those Palestinians voting for the Knesset. He just wants the land...
...been vehemently opposed to Romero's bold stands against the country's repressive oligarchy, which would welcome a military dictatorship. The country's priests are also divided between active, largely urban adherents of so-called liberation theology, and conservative, mostly rural guardians of the status quo...
...bigots in general--are well-intended, friendly, good people. They hope that Blacks/Gays/Asians/Women/Chicanos get their rights. But as long as they refrain from actively attempting to transform their attitudes toward and assumptions about various oppressed groups, they will be providing de facto support for a maintenance of the status quo...