And yet in that moment I saw those who did have the luxury of choice, those who live lives of comfort, looking down from the windows of a mansion at a crowd whose request was to deliver a letter for the sake of human decency.
For the sake of human decency, the stability of the public relationship with its elected officials, and the good of your constituency, I urge you to resign immediately.
Would we risk everything for the sake of principle and decency?
Before then, imagery of war had been subject to absolute censorship during conflict and diluted for the sake of "taste and decency" by the media during peacetime.
But now that he has stunned the political world and, likely, himself he has shown little inclination (or, perhaps, capacity) to grow into his role, to modify his language, be it for the sake of the Republican establishment or of simple decency.
Surely we must be able to imagine, not only for the sake of our literature but also for the sake of our security, that there are sexually satisfied enemies of decency and modernity.
If we allow those lone voices to dominate the national conversation for the sake of attracting readers or viewers to a juicy controversy, the true picture of American tolerance and decency will be distorted, and we will all be the losers.
