Changing a filter will refresh results (and remaining options) immediately. Searching by keyword or changing the number of items per page requires use of the "Search" button.

Displaying 501 - 543 of 543

  • WHEREAS, registration procedures and the November 1964 elections in the state of Mississippi were conducted by the officials in that state in a manner clearly designed to discriminate systematically against Negro citizens of the state; and WHEREAS, qualified voters of Mississippi residing in the...
    1965 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Election Reform, Racial Justice
  • WHEREAS, the Commission on Religion and Race has from its inception called upon Unitarians and Universalists to bear witness to their concern for racial justice at all times and in all possible situations; and WHEREAS, in view of the fact that James Reeb was deeply engaged in the life of this cit...
    1965 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • RESOLVED: That Unitarian Universalists be urged to work for comprehensive "open occupancy" legislation at all levels and that such legislation embody firm and unambiguous enforcement procedures; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the President of the United States be encouraged to extend the federal...
    1965 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Equal Opportunity, Economic Justice
  • RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association, at its 1964 General Assembly, reaffirm, defend and promote the supreme worth of every human personality, the dignity of man, and the use of the democratic method in human relationships, as stated in the purposes and objectives of its...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • The rise of violence in the political and social conflicts of American life endangers freedom of speech and assembly essential to democratic society....
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Due Process & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS, every phase of the religious education of children ought to be entirely in the hands of their respective parents or of the persons and agencies that these parents freely and individually choose; BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association express its opposition to all...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS, the President of the United States has stated that one-fifth of all American families have resources inadequate to meet their basic needs and has announced a war on poverty in America and has called for a cooperative effort to deal with its causes and cures; WHEREAS, the blight of povert...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Equal Opportunity, Economic Justice
  • WHEREAS, meeting the medical needs of our aged population is a pressing social problem, and meeting the cost of medical care is frequently beyond the financial ability of the elderly; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urge the Congress to enact legislation to...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS, one hundred years after the abolition of slavery, the descendants of freed slaves still suffer from laws, customs, traditions, and prejudices that should have died with the institution in which they flourished; and WHEREAS, we believe it to be our deep responsibility to promote the full...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • RESOLVED: That in accordance with the purposes and objectives of the Unitarian Universalist Association, this Association and its members hereby declare and affirm their special responsibility to promote the full participation of persons, without regard to race, color, sex, or national origin, in...
    1964 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Equal Opportunity
  • WHEREAS, the political and military situation in South Vietnam is steadily deteriorating; and WHEREAS, the danger of enlargement of the present war into a multi-national conflict is ominously increasing; and WHEREAS, the intent of the Geneva Conference of 1954 was to neutralize the whole Indochin...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • WHEREAS, the United Nations Assembly adopted unanimously Resolution 1907 on November 21, 1963, urging all member nations to endeavor to promote measures aimed at the elimination of international tension; and WHEREAS, the UN Assembly is convinced that devoting a year to international cooperation...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • WHEREAS, an effective ministry in the Unitarian Universalist churches requires both the full utilization of qualified persons now available and a continuing influx of able candidates; and WHEREAS, many are discouraged from entering the ministry because of widespread reluctance of churches and...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
  • WHEREAS, persistent delays in the legislative process of the Congress of the United States result from certain of its traditions, precedents, rules and procedures; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association favors the revision of procedures in both Houses of the Congres...
    1964 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Election Reform
  • WHEREAS, the Unitarian and Universalist movements have historically affirmed the supreme worth of every human personality, the dignity of man, the use of the democratic method in human relationships, and the ideals of brotherhood, justice and peace; and WHEREAS, refusal to welcome persons into...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Equal Opportunity
  • WHEREAS, the Encyclical of His Holiness, Pope John XXIII, entitled "Peace on Earth" issued on April 11, 1963, and concerned with "establishing universal peace in truth, justice, charity, and liberty," is a wise and noble utterance and is directed not only to the faithful of the Roman Catholic...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • WHEREAS, the United States is founded on the principles of individual rights and civil liberties, embodied in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution; and WHEREAS, for several years these individual rights and civil liberties have been under attack by various elements of our society, resulting in ...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • WHEREAS, our ethical, moral, and religious principles set forth in Section 2 of our Constitution, "To implement our vision of one world by striving for community founded on ideals of brotherhood, justice, and peace"; and WHEREAS, although general and complete disarmament is one of the stated...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict, Nuclear Disarmament
  • WHEREAS, it should be a serious and determined concern of all liberal religious people to provide every possible opportunity for the emotional health and well being of young people, to assist socially and culturally deprived youth, and to promote adequate educational, training and employment...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health
  • BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association at its 1963 General Assembly, reaffirms its support of religious freedom based on the principle of separation of church and state and urges its members to: Uphold the principle of non-sectarian public education; Oppose Bible readings and...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Church & State, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • WHEREAS, the present basis of the United States Immigration quota system rests on the national origins of the country's white population according to the 1920 census; and WHEREAS, this system contradicts the founding principles of the nation and is at variance with national needs and internationa...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Economic Justice, Immigration, Racial Justice
  • WHEREAS, we as Unitarian Universalists are deeply concerned for dignity and rights of human beings; and WHEREAS, the laws which narrowly circumscribe or completely prohibit termination of pregnancy by qualified medical practitioners are an affront to human life and dignity; and WHEREAS, these...
    1963 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Abortion Rights, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Justice
  • WHEREAS, the principle of academic freedom is an intrinsic part of our civil liberties and basic to our democratic society; and WHEREAS, education is an ever more important thread in our democratic fabric and is now in transition and stress due to the cold war and increasing international tension...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • WHEREAS, churches associated in congregational polity frequently desire, through the orderly method of democratic parliamentary procedure, to express their ethical concerns and judgment on important contemporary issues, and to implement the same to the end that opinion both within the denominatio...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • WHEREAS, a thermonuclear war would cause destruction beyond imagination; and WHEREAS, fallout shelters would provide little protection against the blast and fire damage from a thermonuclear explosion; and WHEREAS, national shelter programs would divert the creativity, energy and funds of the peop...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict, Nuclear Disarmament
  • WHEREAS, democracy is the system of government established in the United States; and WHEREAS, the residents of the District of Columbia live under colonial status with appointed rather than elected city officials; and WHEREAS, the residents of the District of Columbia have previously experienced...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Election Reform
  • WHEREAS, famine and illiteracy are fundamental problems in the world; and WHEREAS, an uncontrolled and unplanned population growth is a fundamental factor increasing these problems by exceeding economic, educational, and agricultural development of many regions and countries; and WHEREAS, it is o...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice
  • WHEREAS, the health of the world's people today and of the future generations is being endangered by the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by a number of world powers; and WHEREAS, nuclear weapons testing increases mutual fear and suspicion among the nations of the world; and WHEREAS, such f...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict, Nuclear Disarmament
  • WHEREAS, a modern approach to criminal law has been needed in this country for many years; and WHEREAS, Unitarians and Universalists have for many years supported more humanitarian dealings with persons charged and convicted of crime in this country; and WHEREAS, the American Law Institute, after...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice
  • WHEREAS, segregation and discrimination wherever practiced continue to be a matter of major national and international concern and reflect attitudes contrary to moral, religious and ethical commitments; and WHEREAS, such discrimination is economically wasteful and psychologically destructive to...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • WHEREAS, the United Nations has continually commanded our support as the world's best hope for peaceful cooperation among its peoples, and according to opinion polls continues to command preponderant support from our American people; and WHEREAS, the United Nations is under attack from extremists...
    1962 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • WHEREAS, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee have failed to accomplish the purposes for which they were established; and WHEREAS, over the years of their existence, the effect of these committees has too often been only to harass people who he...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • WHEREAS, meeting the medical needs of our aged population is a pressing social problem, and meeting the cost of medical care is frequently beyond the financial ability of the elderly; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urge the Congress to enact legislation to...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS, 1960 was the "Year of Africa" in that 17 new states became independent, 14 of which were admitted to the United Nations; and WHEREAS, in other areas of Africa, notably Algeria, Southwest Africa, the Rhodesias, Mozambique and Angola, Africans are denied self-government and other basic hum...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice
  • WHEREAS, denial of equal opportunities for education on account of race or color continues to be widespread seven years after the Supreme Court's unanimous declaration that the Constitution forbids it; and WHEREAS, such disregard for the supreme law of the land presents a moral crisis no less tha...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urges the President of the United States to promulgate an executive order prohibiting discrimination in federal housing and urban renewal programs and establishing a committee to develop a program of implementation of the same. BE IT...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Equal Opportunity, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Racial Justice
  • WHEREAS, every second hospital bed in the United States is occupied by a mentally ill person with most public mental hospitals caring for 1,000 to 14,000 patients; and WHEREAS, medical knowledge has developed to the degree that many of the mentally ill could, with proper individual care, be retur...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health
  • WHEREAS, the settlement of international conflicts by war is inconsistent with our commitments under the charter of the United Nations and the prolongation of present tensions threatens mankind with annihilation; and WHEREAS, weapons of mass destruction are inconsistent with our moral and religio...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • RESOLVED: The Unitarian Universalist Association, in its First Assembly, reaffirming its devotion to the ideal of human liberty and brotherhood, extends its firm and continuous support to its member churches and fellowships in their efforts to express this in the present drive to desegregate our...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice
  • BE IT RESOLVED: That in this troubled period of national self-examination and conflict of thought about future United States policy on Cuba, the Unitarian Universalist Association go on record as being opposed to United States military intervention, direct or indirect, in Cuba, but rather urges t...
    1961 | Resolution of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • WHEREAS, respect for the value of every human life must be incorporated into our laws if it is to be observed by our people; and WHEREAS, modern justice should concern itself with rehabilitation, not retribution; and WHEREAS, it has not been proved that fear of capital punishment is a deterrent t...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS, Unitarians and Universalists have historically and continuously supported our great public school system; WE REAFFIRM our pride in our schools and stand staunchly against any public funds through loans or grants being given to parochial or church-related schools as being unconstitutional...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health
  • WHEREAS, migratory workers are the most disadvantaged group in our population with below-minimum wages, sub-standard health and housing, and restricted opportunities for their children; and WHEREAS, protections of social legislation established for the benefit of industrial workers are non-existe...
    1961 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Agriculture in Environmental Justice, Economic Justice