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... poor and ignorant ; we should not begrudge the help we have given them or allow our financial outlay to blind us to their elemental right to their freedom . In spite of our unprecedentedly altruistic rule , there have been some wrongs ...
... poor and ignorant ; we should not begrudge the help we have given them or allow our financial outlay to blind us to their elemental right to their freedom . In spite of our unprecedentedly altruistic rule , there have been some wrongs ...
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... poor , high and low , educated and ignorant , white and black . If we have had no personal experience to refute our optimism , we shall naturally assume that this is the case in America . But a little study of the facts shows that our ...
... poor , high and low , educated and ignorant , white and black . If we have had no personal experience to refute our optimism , we shall naturally assume that this is the case in America . But a little study of the facts shows that our ...
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... poor , and render little or no service in return ; in some cases they do not even take the trouble to go to court when the case comes up . An ex - convict , writing in the Outlook for Decem- ber 27 , 1916 , declares that among the men ...
... poor , and render little or no service in return ; in some cases they do not even take the trouble to go to court when the case comes up . An ex - convict , writing in the Outlook for Decem- ber 27 , 1916 , declares that among the men ...
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... poor . If this plan , already in practice in some American communities , is universally applied , we may hope to substitute in the minds of the poor a genuine respect for the law for the contempt and fear that they now too often feel ...
... poor . If this plan , already in practice in some American communities , is universally applied , we may hope to substitute in the minds of the poor a genuine respect for the law for the contempt and fear that they now too often feel ...
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... poor alike , and to rate human needs above prop- erty interests . It must take account of the influences that lead certain people almost irresistibly into crime ; it must seek to give them a fair chance by counteracting as far as ...
... poor alike , and to rate human needs above prop- erty interests . It must take account of the influences that lead certain people almost irresistibly into crime ; it must seek to give them a fair chance by counteracting as far as ...
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Page 299 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Page 28 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Page 299 - Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
Page 57 - But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas— that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Page 300 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Page 94 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 302 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world ; that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 67 - Let every American, every lover of liberty, every wellwisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Page 299 - The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices and long-cherished principles of international action and...
Page 292 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.