Moral progress in law exacts heavy partisan political costs

Evidence

Another century later, in the wake of a monumental civil rights protest movement, President Lyndon Johnson muscled through Congress and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial segregation. In reflecting on this legislative action, he predicted that “we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come” (Germany, 2010). The pace of social change is exceedingly slow when heavy political costs make it hard to be morally courageous. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Smith saw progressive legislation as simultaneously moral and strategically optimal politics — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 560