Comity Quotes
This was before secession and “Confederacy” as Lincoln was using the term referred to the Confederacy or the original 13 states and the territories that joined the Union thereafter.
Most modern politicians are just the opposite. The political scene is rife with politicians impugning motives.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier
At the time Democrats & Republicans were at each others throats and neither group would much compromise and vitriol was the style of oratory. The partisanship was at an extreme and, respectful, collegial workings between members of the two parties had all but disappeared.
The Congress was debating President Johnson’s Voting Rights Bill. Southern Democrats and Conservative Republicans were opposed to legislation that would prevent states from discriminating against Black and other minority voters. Johnson needed the support of minority leader Dirksen and the moderate Republicans. Dirksen was at the White House discussing the strategy for the passage of the bill. This quotation illustrates the “partisanship of the day” where opponents were quite friendly even when they were “denouncing” each other, The venom and personal disrespect and hatred of the beginning of the 21st century was absent in the 1960s even though the most radical and controversial legislation was being debated. The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Non Discrimination in Housing and Medicare were all passed that year with filibusters and cloture votes. Yet there was always comity.
While most talk show radio hosts in the political arena were highly partisan and not very polite about opinions contary to theirs and their major audience, Rehm was a real standout who not only was civil to all people regardless of view point but over her decades of broadcasting, always reminded her audience to also be so with suggestions like this classic.
Fischer was in the midst of a parliamentary debate and the President had ruled against him on a procedural matter.
She even thought that Gandhi was sometimes too violent verbally. There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
Vladimir Lenin. Although Lenin’s letter was given to the Central Committee by his wife, it was not read or debated at the Congress and Stalin was elected.
