Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter CronkiteRead
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the shift in societal attitudes towards homosexuality during the 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing the fight for acceptance and respect.
Walter Cronkite's quote reflects a significant change in the perspective of society regarding homosexuality during the '60s and '70s. It acknowledges that homosexual individuals began to organize themselves to advocate for their rights, seeking both acceptance from mainstream society as well as a respectable place within it, marking a pivotal moment in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and recognition.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about LGBTQ+ rights during a history class.
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
I think that our comfort is in our history.
The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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