THE WAY WE SAW IT
THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
...In the 1950s and 1960s alone, at least fifteen civil rights leaders and workers were killed in the South while struggling to achieve some measure of justice for blacks...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...July 1964 Conservation for all The problem before us is not to hoard our resources, but to develop them in such a way that the benefits flowing from development will inure not to a few men, but to the rightful owners — all the people of the United States...
...The responsibility for violating the law, or neglecting public interest, ought to fall upon them as individAugust, 1911 Business and South Africa What is good for business is not always good for the nation, and there is no more flagrant example than the contradiction between business and national policies toward the Republic of South Africa...
...Thurman Arnold, July 1944...
...Losing the dream Those Americans who advocate, or even passively accept, the present slowing down of progress in civil rights betray the sacrifices of every man and woman, black or white, who gave their lives in the struggle for equality of opportunity...
...Medgar Evers, June 1973 Individuals and corporations Men do not cease to be individuals by becoming the officers of corporations...
...February 1912 Straying from the path And today, the most important issue of the postwar world is whether we will be deluded into again establishing an economy of controlled and stabilized production by private combinations, under the delusion that this path leads to security and international stabilization...
Vol. 43 • September 1979 • No. 9
