At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

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Vera Brittain: "At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete."

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Achievement	Assassinations	Citizens	Combined
Complete	Even	Faced	Firstrate
Greater	Halfcentury	History	Individuals
Inhibited	Lesser	Liberation	Long
Longer	Major	Mankind	Members
Millions	Opportunities	Paradoxically	Period
Previous	Progress	Races	Secondclass
Series	Societies	Stage	Strangely
Subject	Transformation	United	Violence
Wars	Women	Workers

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At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. - Vera Brittain