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- 1421: The Advisory Opinion Of The IC
- ... the devices needed for a global suicide. The very existence of nuclear systems feeds the security dilemma. There are some signs that the situation is not altogether hopeless. This new logic of condemning aggression and violence is strongly expressed in the principles of international law emerging from the bloodshed of the two world wars of this century. The main aim of the UN regime is to maintain international peace and security ...
- 1422: Lao-Tzu: The Moderation Of Rul
- ... the less self-reliant people will be" (25). My belief that Americans could not adopt Lao-Tzu's tactics may be my own misconception. America is portrayed through the media with a message of dependence, violence and moral decline. Whether or not this is an accurate conception of American society, with this type of representation Americans will have to climb out the hole of the stereotypes as well as the actual ...
- 1423: Thomas Hobbes
- ... State of Nature and the States of War, which however some Men have comfounded, are as far distant, as a State of Peace, Good Will, Mutual Assistance and Preservation, and a State of Enmity, Malace, Violence, and Mutual destruction are one from another.\\" To Locke the state of nature is when there is peace without government, and a state of war is when a man\\'s rights are violated. Locke\\'s ...
- 1424: William Butler Yeats
- ... take up the Irish writers cause. England was trying to destroy all Irish literature in an attempt to anglicize Ireland through a ban on the Gaelic language. OLearys nationalism and opposition to violence impressed many people including Yeats. These views helped shape political views that Yeats would hold for the rest of his life. In 1889Yeats met Maude Gonne, a woman he loved unrequitedly for the rest of ...
- 1425: Sheyann Webb
- ... To her suprise, the squirrel was cleanly shot though the head, even though she was only 8 years old! Annie's mom liked having the meat for dinner, but the family's Quaker religion opposed violence. Annie had to promise never to use the gun on someone. Annie was well known in Cincinnati for her cleanly shot birds. People who ate the birds did not have to worry about chipping a ...
- 1426: Rutherford B. Hayes
- ... so as to promote the truest and best interests of the whole country". At the beginning of his administration, Hayes had set out his southern policy very clearly. He wanted to eliminate political acts of violence against blacks. He insisted, and believed, that white southerners would adhere to the tenets of the Civil War Amendments. He insisted that the federal government had a responsibility to provide aid for education and public ...
- 1427: Rocky Marciano
- ... from foreign imports had combined to produce mass unemployment and fierce union rivalries. At one point, over half of Brockton's factories had closed down, and President Franklin Roosevelt personally intervened to control threats of violence. Meanwhile, Rocky's father, Pierino - who was not as established as the unionized immigrants who had long preceded him to Brockton - struggled to hold on to a non-union job at the local Stacey Adams ...
- 1428: Pablo Picasso
- ... him to create the 11 by 25 foot masterpiece which he named "Guernica". This large mural was, without doubt, the greatest of all creations made by Picasso in his lifetime. It depicted war through anger, violence and death using the tragedy of the bullfight. The critic Jean Cassous stated, "it overflows with fullness and presence, with signs and cries." During World War 2, Picasso was forbidden to exhibit his work after ...
- 1429: Nelson Mandela
- ... maximum security prison. While in prison he rejected many offers to be released if he would recognize Transkei and agree to settle there. He also rejected an offer of release on condition that he renounce violence. Released on February 11, 1990, Mandela plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference ...
- 1430: Miyamoto Musashi
- ... it took only one man with little battle experience to capture him. That one man was a Zen priest named Takuan Soho. Legend has it that the priest captured the runaway Musashi without resorting to violence. The captured Musashi was then held at Hejime castle for three years. It was here where Musashi matured and studied the ways of the samurai. He read and studied the Chinese classic The Art of ...
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