All 6 Uses of
commend
in
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- I commend you, Reverend Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a nonsegregated basis.†
- I commend the Catholic leaders of this state for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago.
*commend = praised
- You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence."†
- I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes.†
- I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together.†
- I wish you had commended the Negro sit inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation.†
Definition:
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(commend as in: I commend your effort) praise or recommend