The United States Academy of Peace Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 1889 ... April 21, 1982

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Página 159 - Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing the power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Página 147 - The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Página 170 - In 1981, the Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution recommended the establishment of the US Academy of Peace, a recommendation nearly as old as this country's constitution.
Página 93 - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Página 93 - This Is not a way of life at all In any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war. It Is humanity hanging from a cross of Iron.
Página 150 - I pictured his fall on the cavern wall That men might understand. For we lived by blood and the right of might, Ere human laws were drawn, And the Age of Sin did not begin Till our brutal tusks were gone.
Página 244 - ... and Whereas the Bible, in Isaiah 2:4, looks forward to a time when nations shall learn war no more, and the church wishes to contribute to the movement toward that time: and Whereas President Carter appointed a commission to study the feasibility of a Peace Academy; and Whereas the National Peace Academy Board of Directors chairman, the Reverend John P. Adams, Director of the Department of Law, Justice, and Community Relations of the United Methodist Church, has declared "the peaceful solution...
Página 227 - He denigrates her femininity— which he is supposed to desire and which he really envies— and becomes more aggressively masculine. She feigns disgust at his masculinity— which she is supposed to admire and which she really envies— and becomes more fastidiously feminine. He is becoming less and less what he wants to be. She is becoming less and less what she wants to be. But now he is more manly than ever, and she is more womanly than ever. Her femininity, growing more dependently supine, becomes...
Página 216 - ... have been resolved constructively and with cost efficiency at the international, national, and community levels through proper use of such techniques as negotiation, conciliation, mediation, and arbitration; (4) there is a national need to examine the disciplines in the social, behavioral, and physical sciences and the arts and humanities with regard to the history, nature, elements, and future of peace processes, and to bring together and develop new and tested techniques to promote peaceful...
Página 244 - The church, in its own life, is called to practice the forgiveness of enemies and to commend to the nations as practical politics the search for cooperation and peace.

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